THIS is the chilling moment a "sado-masochistic" couple drag a mum's severed remains in a suitcase after murdering her to satisfy her bloodlust. Steve Sansom, 45, and his girlfriend Gemma Watts , 49, slaughtered Sarah Mayhew after exchanging "depraved" texts about cannibalism.
They were then captured on CCTV in the dead of night wheeling the year-old's butchered body parts through South London. Parts of Sarah's remains were discovered in Rowdown Fields, Croydon , last year. Then her "limbless torso" was then pulled from the River Wandle by contractors carrying out cleaning work weeks later. Sansom and Watts were yesterday jailed after pleading guilty to murder and perverting the course of justice. It is a second life sentence for Sansom, who was previously convicted and jailed for murder in A court heard the couple's relationship was "characterised by sado-masochistic violence" that was so intense they "often referred to dying together if caught".
They would send each other "depraved" messages about their macabre desire to kill victims while "involved in sexual activity" with them. The couple then discussed having sex while covered in their victim's blood and eating human flesh. Four days later, Sansom said in a voice note: "Everything looks like meat now don't they?
A plaything, something to cut, something to bleed, they all look different now. Watts replied: "Wonder what they taste like, cooked flesh, maybe even rare so blood drips down our faces. They also had a "kinky" sexual relationship and shared texts about bestiality, humiliation and causing hurt. Prosecutor Tom Little KC said: "Given what was subsequently to happen to Sarah Mayhew this murderous, sexual and sadistic discussion was manifestly not an idle fantasy.
On March 8 last year, Sarah was last seen heading to Sansom's home after meeting him on a dating site years previously. The depraved couple then used power tools to chop up Sarah's body after Sansom purchased a mm hacksaw, a mm blade and litre bucket. After cleaning up evidence of their gruesome crime, he left a chilling voice note claiming the pair had "done the world a service". He also posted on his Facebook, which had the username "Red Rum" - murder spelt backwards - two days later.
