Not an Ealing Comedy
Real life imitates ‘Kind Hearts and Coronets‘
Eighteen pages of neatly hand-written notes found in Kemi Adeyoola’s prison cell describe in graphic detail her murderous plan to get rich quick.
Entitled “Prison and After. Making Life Count”, the manual talks of finding a wealthy and elderly victim who she would rob and kill.
“She must be wealthy, quite elderly and defenceless,” it said of the potential victim.
She talked of finding a victim to rob and kill. This would involve staking out houses worth millions of pounds in isolated areas.
The teeanger said it was a work of fiction inspired by her fascination for crime writers James Patterson and Martina Cole.
But an Old Bailey jury disagreed in favour of the prosecution’s view that it was a blueprint for murder.
They found the 18-year-old, of Camden, north London, guilty of murdering 84-year-old Anne Mendel at her home in Golders Green in north-west London.