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'Murder manual' teen gets life
28/06/2006 21:40 - (SA)
London - The 18-year-old daughter of a property management tycoon was given a life sentence on Wednesday with a minimum term of 20 years for the murder of her elderly former neighbour in north London.
Kemi Adeyoola, 18, who was disowned by her father Bola Adeyoola during her trial at the Old Bailey criminal court in central London, stabbed Anne Mendel, 84, 14 times at the victim's home in north London in March last year.
She was linked to the murder through DNA evidence, after Mandel's body was found by her husband lifeless under a pile of coats.
"You are a remorseless and cold-blooded killer who is a danger to the public," judge Richard Hone told Adeyoola - who was 17 when the murder took place - as he delivered her sentence.
"I think you actually wanted to experience what it felt like to kill someone in cold blood, possibly so you could write about it, but more probably so you could boast about it and possible even do it again."
The court heard that Adeyoola killed the frail pensioner as an experiment, with her ultimate goal being to find a wealthy victim to rob and kill in hopes of pocketing £3m.
Her evil plan was set out in an 18-page manual that she wrote during an earlier stint in prison for shoplifting - a document she claimed was an outline for a crime thriller.
Neither of Adeyoola's parents, who are divorced, was in court on Wednesday - leaving her lawyer Henry Blaxland to say that his client was "emotionally damaged (and) utterly alone in the world".
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