A serial killer wrote a letter to a judge saying she feels ‘no remorse’ for murdering three men in the space of ten days, a court heard yesterday.
Psychopath Joanna Dennehy laughed and smirked as Judge Justice Spencer branded her a ‘cruel, calculated, selfish and manipulative serial killer’.
his summing up, Dennehy muttered in the dock and shouted the word ‘b******s’.
But after the judge ordered her to serve the rest of her life in jail, the mother of two, who was flanked by ten security guards, looked stunned and started wailing.
Dennehy is only the third woman to be given a whole-life prison term – along with Moors murderer Myra Hindley and House of Horrors serial killer Rose West – and the first to be given the term by a judge. Hindley and West were both handed the sentence by home secretaries.
During a ten-day killing spree, Dennehy stabbed lover Kevin Lee and housemates Lukasz Slaboszewski and John Chapman, dumping each body in ditches in Cambridgeshire in March last year.
Dennehy, who was brought up in a stable family home in the Home Counties, carried out the attacks to gratify her ‘sadistic love for blood’.
The Old Bailey was told the killer had a ‘sexual and sadistic motivation’. Later she told a psychiatrist: ‘I killed to see how I would feel, to see if I was as cold as I thought I was. Then it got more-ish.’
Experts said Dennehy craved notoriety and wanted to humiliate her victims through sick sex games. Before the killings she had boasted she had already killed four times.
When the three bodies were found police launched a high-profile murder investigation.
Sentencing the killer, Judge Spencer told her: ‘Within the space of ten days you murdered three men in cold blood.
‘In the letter you have written to me you say in terms that you do not feel any remorse for the murders, and to claim otherwise would be a lie.
‘The overall circumstances of the three murders, with the attempted murders and the dumping of the bodies, plainly makes this a case of exceptionally high seriousness and one of the rare cases which requires a whole life order.’
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