Singer Joss Stone has described how her front door was rarely locked at a time when two men were allegedly plotting to decapitate her, then dump her body in a river.
The 25-year-old told Exeter Crown Court she became aware of the alleged plot by Junior Bradshaw and Kevin Liverpool only when she was visited by the police at her mid-Devon home.
She said: “Apart from someone (police) coming around to say someone is trying to kill me, it was a really nice day.”
Speaking about the lack of security at her home, she said: “I’ve lived in Devon for a long time and nobody really shuts their door.”
The suspects were arrested in June 2011, close to the singer’s house after suspicious neighbors reported them to police. They never reached her house.
Opening the case at Exeter Crown Court Monday, prosecutor Simon Morgan told a jury the pair, 32 and 35, set off from their home in Manchester with a samurai sword, knives, a hammer, black bags and gloves for Stone’s house in Devon. The men were allegedly part of a gang that hatched the plot, but other members could not be traced.
Morgan said that handwritten notes found in the suspects’ car made reference to “decapitate,” another read “Jocelyn RIP” and a further note said: “Once Jocelyn’s dead … find a river to dump her.”
The motive for the plot was not clear, but Morgan said the men may have targeted Stone for her money or because they disliked her links with the royal family.
The notes indicated that the pair disapproved of Stone being invited to the Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding in 2011, he said.
The defendants deny all charges. The trial continues.
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