Public schoolgirl Adeyoola wrote a "blueprint" for the murder of a wealthy, elderly woman whilst behind bars. Over 18 pages written while she was in a young offenders' institution, she dreamed up a plan to make £3million by killing a 'wealthy, quite elderly and defenceless' victim. When she was released, she carried out the murder that she meticulously planned.
She has been sentenced to AT LEAST 20 years' behind bars, the judge not caring for her age and gender.
The schoolgirl who was born to kill
By MICHAEL SEAMARK, Daily Mail
28th June 2006
Anne Mendel, left, was stabbed to death by Kemi Adelooya
An 18-year-old former public schoolgirl who wrote and executed a 'blueprint' for the murder of an elderly woman was sentenced today.
Kemi Adeyoola wrote the document in a young offenders' institution and on her release stabbed 84-year-old Anne Mendel 14 times in a 'fiendish' murder. She was convicted at the Old Bailey yesterday and was sentenced today with a recommendation that she serves at least 20 years behind bars.
Their worlds could not have been further apart.
All that elderly Anne Mendel and multimillionaire's daughter Kemi Adeyoola shared was a brief spell as neighbours in a north London suburb. Grey-haired great-grandmother Mrs Mendel, seven stone and barely 4ft 10in, had devoted her life to her family, charity and community and despite her 84 years and increasing frailty would, say friends, 'travel miles to help people'.
Public schoolgirl Adeyoola cared only for herself. She had served time for shoplifting, boasted of working as a £500 a night prostitute and, most chillingly of all, written a 'blueprint for murder'. Over 18 pages written while she was in a young offenders' institution, she dreamed up a plan to make £3million by killing a 'wealthy, quite elderly and defenceless' victim.
The dossier was found in her cell and a council monitoring team was set up to supervise her for three months after her release. But psychiatrists decided Adeyoola did not pose a risk and, a month after supervision expired, she struck. Adeyoola adhered to virtually every word of her manual, stabbing the Jewish pensioner 14 times at her home in Golders Green, North London.
The victim was discovered by her 81-year-old husband Leonard, lying under a pile of clothes in her blood-soaked pyjamas and pink dressing gown.
Adeyoola, daughter of a property tycoon reputed to be worth £10million, faces a life sentence when she is sentenced today after an Old Bailey jury found her guilty of the 'fiendish' murder. After the verdict sources close to the murder inquiry said the teenager was born to kill - a supremely arrogant psychopath with total disregard for humanity.
Her father Bola Adeyoola has disowned her. 'Nobody is born evil but what she did was evil,' he said. 'She is no longer my daughter. I will never see her again, and don't want her anywhere near me. I regret the day I ever met her mother.
'When I saw Mrs Mendel's picture I started crying. As a Christian, I can't believe anyone would do that.'
Mr Adeyoola, 49, a former boxer who has remarried and lives in a £2million Berkshire home, had briefly given his daughter a £140 a week job and free accommodation.
'She was staying with me until a month before the murder, when I found out she had been shoplifting,' he said. 'I do wonder whether this woman would still be alive if I hadn't kicked her out.
'At first I couldn't accept that somebody with my blood in her veins could do this to anyone - but then I saw the evidence. She should rot in hell.'
The marriage of Mr Adeyoola, who came here from Nigeria as a child, and Kemi's Barbados-born mother Mercuria, lasted barely four years and he had little contact during the childrens' upbringing.
The couple produced three children and Mercuria has a fourth child from another relationship.
Despite suggestions that Mrs Adeyoola received a £4million divorce settlement, she and her children led a shiftless life around the country, moving to a succession of homes in places including Cheltenham and Peterborough, frequently alienating neighbours.
At one property in Gloucestershire, Adeyoola killed the goldfish in a neighbour's pond and blamed a cat.
The teenage killer briefly boarded at £23,000-a-year Wycliffe College. The independent school at Stonehouse in the
Cotswolds prides itself on its academic and sporting achievements, but Adeyoola only lasted a few months because of a row over who was paying her fees.
The dysfunctional family moved into Elmcroft Road in Golders Green for several months, living next door to Mr and Mrs Mendel.
The elderly couple had been married for 50 years and lived a quiet, rewarding life. They had two children, and 14 grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Their son Yitzhak, appealing for help after the murder, said: 'My mother spent every day of her week performing good deeds and charity work. She devoted her
whole life to visiting the sick, helping friends and neighbours and bringing a smile to everyone she knew - even complete strangers.'
In earlier years Mrs Mendel had worked as a hospital secretary and joined the Army during the Second World War to help track German bombers blitzing the East End of London where the couple lived.
She offered the hand of friendship to the girl who was to kill her, letting the teenager into her house after she locked herself out.
But neighbours said Adeyoola subjected residents to a 'reign of terror' and racial harassment, abusing young children and even smearing excrement on windows.
She was arrested for abusing one Asian neighbour. A resident, who did not want to be identified, said: 'She gave a lot of trouble to one particular family. Once she lay in wait for the man, an Asian, behind a bush and punched him in the face, breaking his nose.
'She called his wife a "Paki lover". He said she tried to poison his dog as well.'
Other neighbours recall Mr Adeyoola sometimes turning up in his Rolls Royce to see his children, but the visits were brief and infrequent.
Criminal habits
Adeyoola ignored school and by the age of 15 had fallen into criminal habits, pilfering goods from high street stores. 'It's a skill,' she told the jury, explaining how she became expert at altering receipts to secure refunds for stolen goods.
She was not as adept as she thought however and after a string of convictions found herself facing a custodial sentence.
Her self-obsession continued and she boasted to a sibling of her acting talents when being questioned by a youth worker. She told how she wept, mumbled and arched her back to convince the woman of her 'innocence and vulnerability' to try to limit her sentence.
'It worked such a treat I could tell she was touched,' she wrote. 'I felt she sensed my anguish.'
Again she over-estimated her skill and ended up at Bulwood Hall young offenders' institute in Essex for three months.
It was there that her thoughts - and writings - turned to murder.
During a routine cell search, staff unearthed her blueprint, entitled Prison and After - Making Life Again. It included a shopping list of sharp knives or butcher's knives, guns, drugs and handcuffs, and logged in chilling detail plans to kill, dismember and dispose of avictim in pursuit of £3milion.
She imagined stalking an elderly woman in a wealthy area, possibly posing as a schoolgirl carrying out a questionnaire for homework.
'Run lightly and silently behind her and cover her mouth with a gloved hand,' she wrote.
'Make her so scared she co-operates. Keep calm, composed and silent. She must co-operate or take a knife to her throat. Tell her, "This is your only warning".'
She described building a cling-film 'tent' and wrote graphically about disposing of the body. 'With your butcher's knife, remove her head. Wrap it in film to contain bleeding, detach limbs one by one.'
When confronted by psychiatrists and prison staff, Adeyoola insisted her notes were part of the draft for a novel.
Barnet Youth Offending Team said yesterday a psychiatric assessment carried out after the document was discovered 'did not indicate any concern that Miss Adeyoola would be pre-disposed in any way to this type of violence - nor was there any evidence of this type of violence in her past'.
The report described her as 'a highly intelligent and sophisticated young person . . . who with
good support should make a good recovery and engage in her A level studies.' A prison psychiatrist, who believed Adeyoola's lies that she had achieved four GCSE A grades, said it was a shame she had been jailed.
After her release in November 2004, education was the last thing on Adeyoola's mind. She moved into an £800-a-month Hampstead flat with another teenager, telling the court she paid the rent by working as a £500 a night 'escort'. 'It is a completely legitimate and professional business. We earned up to £5,000 a week,' she said.
In March 2005, with her supervision at an end, Adeyoola turned her 'novel' into horrific reality.
In the hour that Mr Mendel popped out to pick up air tickets for a trip to Israel, the teenager struck, inflicting deep wounds to her victim's torso, right arm and back with a blade at least 1in wide and 5in long.
A spokesman for the Barnet Youth Offending Team said: 'There was nothing in the file that would have predicted homicide. The psychiatric report did not predict any likely occurrence of this.'
During her trial Adeyoola, dressed in pinstriped suit, pink trainers and spangly belt, appeared unmoved by the gravity of her crime, smiling and exchanging text messages during court recesses.
She had lied brazenly to police over DNA found on her victim, claiming she had visited Golders Green the day before the murder and the pensioner had scratched her hand as she helped her across the road.
With the assistance of a 16 year old girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, she then tried to construct an alibi.
Detective Chief Inspector Steve Morris called her 'a callous and devious young woman', adding: 'Her cold, calculated use of extreme violence beggars belief.'
Police believe more victims may have been in the pipeline and that the attack on Mrs Mendel may have been a 'dry run' for a wealthier target. Detective Sergeant Paul Belsham said: 'If she had got away with this then God knows what she might have done. She is very very dangerous.'
Mr Mendel, who has moved to Israel to live with his daughter, described his wife as someone 'whose life was taken up with kindness and giving up of herself to others.
'The unjust end she met, having so much taken away in such an undeserving manner, left us in total shock.'
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She has been sentenced to AT LEAST 20 years' behind bars, the judge not caring for her age and gender.
The schoolgirl who was born to kill
By MICHAEL SEAMARK, Daily Mail
28th June 2006
Anne Mendel, left, was stabbed to death by Kemi Adelooya
An 18-year-old former public schoolgirl who wrote and executed a 'blueprint' for the murder of an elderly woman was sentenced today.
Kemi Adeyoola wrote the document in a young offenders' institution and on her release stabbed 84-year-old Anne Mendel 14 times in a 'fiendish' murder. She was convicted at the Old Bailey yesterday and was sentenced today with a recommendation that she serves at least 20 years behind bars.
Their worlds could not have been further apart.
All that elderly Anne Mendel and multimillionaire's daughter Kemi Adeyoola shared was a brief spell as neighbours in a north London suburb. Grey-haired great-grandmother Mrs Mendel, seven stone and barely 4ft 10in, had devoted her life to her family, charity and community and despite her 84 years and increasing frailty would, say friends, 'travel miles to help people'.
Public schoolgirl Adeyoola cared only for herself. She had served time for shoplifting, boasted of working as a £500 a night prostitute and, most chillingly of all, written a 'blueprint for murder'. Over 18 pages written while she was in a young offenders' institution, she dreamed up a plan to make £3million by killing a 'wealthy, quite elderly and defenceless' victim.
The dossier was found in her cell and a council monitoring team was set up to supervise her for three months after her release. But psychiatrists decided Adeyoola did not pose a risk and, a month after supervision expired, she struck. Adeyoola adhered to virtually every word of her manual, stabbing the Jewish pensioner 14 times at her home in Golders Green, North London.
The victim was discovered by her 81-year-old husband Leonard, lying under a pile of clothes in her blood-soaked pyjamas and pink dressing gown.
Adeyoola, daughter of a property tycoon reputed to be worth £10million, faces a life sentence when she is sentenced today after an Old Bailey jury found her guilty of the 'fiendish' murder. After the verdict sources close to the murder inquiry said the teenager was born to kill - a supremely arrogant psychopath with total disregard for humanity.
Her father Bola Adeyoola has disowned her. 'Nobody is born evil but what she did was evil,' he said. 'She is no longer my daughter. I will never see her again, and don't want her anywhere near me. I regret the day I ever met her mother.
'When I saw Mrs Mendel's picture I started crying. As a Christian, I can't believe anyone would do that.'
Mr Adeyoola, 49, a former boxer who has remarried and lives in a £2million Berkshire home, had briefly given his daughter a £140 a week job and free accommodation.
'She was staying with me until a month before the murder, when I found out she had been shoplifting,' he said. 'I do wonder whether this woman would still be alive if I hadn't kicked her out.
'At first I couldn't accept that somebody with my blood in her veins could do this to anyone - but then I saw the evidence. She should rot in hell.'
The marriage of Mr Adeyoola, who came here from Nigeria as a child, and Kemi's Barbados-born mother Mercuria, lasted barely four years and he had little contact during the childrens' upbringing.
The couple produced three children and Mercuria has a fourth child from another relationship.
Despite suggestions that Mrs Adeyoola received a £4million divorce settlement, she and her children led a shiftless life around the country, moving to a succession of homes in places including Cheltenham and Peterborough, frequently alienating neighbours.
At one property in Gloucestershire, Adeyoola killed the goldfish in a neighbour's pond and blamed a cat.
The teenage killer briefly boarded at £23,000-a-year Wycliffe College. The independent school at Stonehouse in the
Cotswolds prides itself on its academic and sporting achievements, but Adeyoola only lasted a few months because of a row over who was paying her fees.
The dysfunctional family moved into Elmcroft Road in Golders Green for several months, living next door to Mr and Mrs Mendel.
The elderly couple had been married for 50 years and lived a quiet, rewarding life. They had two children, and 14 grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Their son Yitzhak, appealing for help after the murder, said: 'My mother spent every day of her week performing good deeds and charity work. She devoted her
whole life to visiting the sick, helping friends and neighbours and bringing a smile to everyone she knew - even complete strangers.'
In earlier years Mrs Mendel had worked as a hospital secretary and joined the Army during the Second World War to help track German bombers blitzing the East End of London where the couple lived.
She offered the hand of friendship to the girl who was to kill her, letting the teenager into her house after she locked herself out.
But neighbours said Adeyoola subjected residents to a 'reign of terror' and racial harassment, abusing young children and even smearing excrement on windows.
She was arrested for abusing one Asian neighbour. A resident, who did not want to be identified, said: 'She gave a lot of trouble to one particular family. Once she lay in wait for the man, an Asian, behind a bush and punched him in the face, breaking his nose.
'She called his wife a "Paki lover". He said she tried to poison his dog as well.'
Other neighbours recall Mr Adeyoola sometimes turning up in his Rolls Royce to see his children, but the visits were brief and infrequent.
Criminal habits
Adeyoola ignored school and by the age of 15 had fallen into criminal habits, pilfering goods from high street stores. 'It's a skill,' she told the jury, explaining how she became expert at altering receipts to secure refunds for stolen goods.
She was not as adept as she thought however and after a string of convictions found herself facing a custodial sentence.
Her self-obsession continued and she boasted to a sibling of her acting talents when being questioned by a youth worker. She told how she wept, mumbled and arched her back to convince the woman of her 'innocence and vulnerability' to try to limit her sentence.
'It worked such a treat I could tell she was touched,' she wrote. 'I felt she sensed my anguish.'
Again she over-estimated her skill and ended up at Bulwood Hall young offenders' institute in Essex for three months.
It was there that her thoughts - and writings - turned to murder.
During a routine cell search, staff unearthed her blueprint, entitled Prison and After - Making Life Again. It included a shopping list of sharp knives or butcher's knives, guns, drugs and handcuffs, and logged in chilling detail plans to kill, dismember and dispose of avictim in pursuit of £3milion.
She imagined stalking an elderly woman in a wealthy area, possibly posing as a schoolgirl carrying out a questionnaire for homework.
'Run lightly and silently behind her and cover her mouth with a gloved hand,' she wrote.
'Make her so scared she co-operates. Keep calm, composed and silent. She must co-operate or take a knife to her throat. Tell her, "This is your only warning".'
She described building a cling-film 'tent' and wrote graphically about disposing of the body. 'With your butcher's knife, remove her head. Wrap it in film to contain bleeding, detach limbs one by one.'
When confronted by psychiatrists and prison staff, Adeyoola insisted her notes were part of the draft for a novel.
Barnet Youth Offending Team said yesterday a psychiatric assessment carried out after the document was discovered 'did not indicate any concern that Miss Adeyoola would be pre-disposed in any way to this type of violence - nor was there any evidence of this type of violence in her past'.
The report described her as 'a highly intelligent and sophisticated young person . . . who with
good support should make a good recovery and engage in her A level studies.' A prison psychiatrist, who believed Adeyoola's lies that she had achieved four GCSE A grades, said it was a shame she had been jailed.
After her release in November 2004, education was the last thing on Adeyoola's mind. She moved into an £800-a-month Hampstead flat with another teenager, telling the court she paid the rent by working as a £500 a night 'escort'. 'It is a completely legitimate and professional business. We earned up to £5,000 a week,' she said.
In March 2005, with her supervision at an end, Adeyoola turned her 'novel' into horrific reality.
In the hour that Mr Mendel popped out to pick up air tickets for a trip to Israel, the teenager struck, inflicting deep wounds to her victim's torso, right arm and back with a blade at least 1in wide and 5in long.
A spokesman for the Barnet Youth Offending Team said: 'There was nothing in the file that would have predicted homicide. The psychiatric report did not predict any likely occurrence of this.'
During her trial Adeyoola, dressed in pinstriped suit, pink trainers and spangly belt, appeared unmoved by the gravity of her crime, smiling and exchanging text messages during court recesses.
She had lied brazenly to police over DNA found on her victim, claiming she had visited Golders Green the day before the murder and the pensioner had scratched her hand as she helped her across the road.
With the assistance of a 16 year old girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, she then tried to construct an alibi.
Detective Chief Inspector Steve Morris called her 'a callous and devious young woman', adding: 'Her cold, calculated use of extreme violence beggars belief.'
Police believe more victims may have been in the pipeline and that the attack on Mrs Mendel may have been a 'dry run' for a wealthier target. Detective Sergeant Paul Belsham said: 'If she had got away with this then God knows what she might have done. She is very very dangerous.'
Mr Mendel, who has moved to Israel to live with his daughter, described his wife as someone 'whose life was taken up with kindness and giving up of herself to others.
'The unjust end she met, having so much taken away in such an undeserving manner, left us in total shock.'
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