‘Terrible truth’: Joanna Dennehy (Picture: PA)

A female serial killer dressed one of her victims in a black sequinned dress before dumping his body in a ditch, a court has heard.

Joanna Dennehy was having an affair with Kevin Lee, 48, whom she wanted to ‘dress up and rape’, jurors were told.

Dennehy, 31, who admits stabbing three men in the heart and dumping the corpses, left his body to be found with his buttocks exposed, said prosecutors.

Peter Wright QC told Cambridge crown court it was a ‘deliberately engineered act of post-death humiliation’.


The details emerged at the trial of her alleged accomplices, Gary ‘Stretch’ Richards and Leslie Layton.



Dennehy, from Peterborough, ‘cast a spell’ over both defendants, who helped her cover up the ‘terrible truth’ of the triple murder, Mr Wright said.

On trial: Gary ‘Stretch’ Richards (Picture: Enterprise)

Her victims – Lukasz Slaboszewski, 31, John Chapman, 56, and Lee, whose bodies were discovered in March and April 2013 – were drawn by the same spell, he alleged. ‘They paid for that with their lives,’ he added. The court heard how Dennehy and her 2.2m (7ft 3in) boyfriend, Richards, went on a ten-day spree of violence after the killings.

They drove to Hereford, where the mother-of-two chose two more victims at random. She repeatedly stabbed both men in the street but they survived.

Dennehy is now in custody awaiting sentencing.

Richards, 47, denies preventing three lawful burials and two counts of attempted murder, while Layton, 36, denies preventing two lawful burials and perverting the course of justice.

The trial continues.