A SELF-confessed “psychopath” who slaughtered two ladies then burned one in an oil drum has been discovered responsible of homicide.
Mark Brown, 41, killed mum-of-three Leah Ware, 33, and Alexandra Morgan, 34, six months aside at Little Bridge Farm in Hastings.
He then set single mum Alexandra alight in an oil drum close to a skip the place police later found burned bone fragments and tooth.
Leah’s physique has by no means been discovered however it’s understood Brown additionally torched her in a grisly plot to cowl his tracks.
After killing the mum, he textual content a pal saying: “Issues I’ve accomplished weigh closely on my coronary heart, in my head and soul, a psychopath with a conscience. It is a joke actually.”
The monster has right this moment been convicted of two counts of homicide at Hove Crown Courtroom.
Jurors heard how each ladies labored as intercourse staff and met Brown by way of the adultwork.com web site.
Leah was a digital prisoner at his farm and held in a delivery container earlier than she disappeared on Might 7, 2021.
Her disappearance got here to gentle after police, who have been trying to find lacking Alexandra, discovered a drug prescription for Leah in his work van.
Whereas trying to cover the grotesque crime, Brown had picked up prescriptions for Leah from a Sainsbury’s pharmacy.
Chilling footage additionally confirmed him withdrawing sums of as much as £200 from her checking account whereas on the grocery store.
On the time, Leah was nonetheless receiving advantages that have been paid instantly into her checking account.
However Brown’s net of lies unravelled due to a path of clues Alexandra left for her sons and police that led cops to her assassin.
Alexandra had been as a result of meet Brown after he provided a highly-paid job at a resort in Brighton the place he labored as safety.
Realising the job is probably not “above board”, she left a observe for her son saying “let’s go rollerblading” with a field of skates present in his bed room.
Additionally within the field was a big sum of money, a cell and a handwritten observe detailing her plan to fulfill Brown on November 14, 2021.
The mum moreover left a location, the pin to her cell and a observe saying: “Test postcode TN34 5NY Rock Lane, reverse Bartletts”.
GRIM END
She was final seen on CCTV driving up a observe in her white Mini Cooper adopted by a gold Jaguar, belonging to Brown.
Police later discovered he had searched “overwhelmed” and “rape” whereas arranging to fulfill Alexandra and in addition watched violent porn.
Brown was arrested on suspicion of Alexandra’s homicide on November 25.
5 days later, officers found burnt-out oil drum with tooth inside at a constructing website in Sevenoaks, Kent, the place Brown had been working.
Hair straighteners and jewelry belonging to Alexandra have been found within the skip the place he had dumped the oil drum.
Requested if he had killed two ladies, Brown mentioned he couldn’t remark however “it is determined by what they discover at my yard”.
Throughout his proof, the monster claimed Alexandra had slipped on a instrument in his workshop and hit her head.
He claimed he “panicked” as there was a “lot of blood” and instructed jurors he supposed to name 999 however as an alternative selected to cowl the dying up.
Brown mentioned he wrapped Alexandra in a sleeping bag and put a towel round her head to stem the bleeding and positioned her head first into the drum.
The killer can be sentenced at a later date.