A builder was sentenced to life in prison with a mandatory minimum of 49 years for the 2021 killings of two woman escorts in Sussex.
Leah
Ware and Alexandra Morgan's murderer, 41-year-old Mark Brown, was convicted of
their deaths last year.
After
declining to appear in person at Hove Crown Court on Friday, he was sentenced
by Justice Nicholas Hilliard.
After
meeting them through a sex work website, Brown killed Ms. Ware, 33, and Ms.
Morgan, 34, at a rural farm near St Leonards in East Sussex in May and November
2021.
He
dumped Ms. Morgan's remains after putting her head first into a handmade
incinerator.
Although Ms. Ware's body has never been discovered, authorities think that Brown killed both her Pomeranian dog, Lady, and Ms. Ware using a similar technique.
Detective Chief Inspector Andy Wolstenholme Statement
The
Sussex Police's Detective Chief Inspector Andy Wolstenholme said the department
would meet with Brown in an effort to encourage him to tell what happened to
Ms. Ware's remains.
When
he recruited Ms. Ware as an escort in 2018, Brown and her, the court heard, had
a "on again, off again" relationship.
After she pushed him to leave his 14-year relationship, he killed her on or around May 7 of last year.
"Psychopath with a Conscience"
Brown
messaged a buddy six months before killing Ms. Ware and Ms. Morgan, referring
to himself as a "psychopath with a conscience."
I'm
going to be extremely careful how I express this, because it just happened
again when I was throwing something out, he wrote. An old oil drum, five litres
of diesel, and presto, there's not much left, which is a pretty unpleasant
thing to do. It becomes extremely hot and shines a nearly white colour.
"The
things I've done make me feel heavy in the heart, the head, and the soul. It's
a joke to have a psychopath with a conscience.
Before
offering Ms. Morgan a £100,000 job as an escort in October of last year, Brown
had hired her for sex roughly a dozen times.
The
following month, when she went to Little Bridge Farm, the place he rented, he
killed her, burned her body, and dumped her remains in a skip at the Sevenoaks,
Kent, construction site where he worked.
He
then asserted that Ms. Morgan was killed at the property in an accident after
slipping in his workshop and hitting her head.
St.
Leonards-on-Sea resident Brown claimed that he torched her body "in a
panic."