Smiling serial killer Joanna Dennehy poses for a series of chilling photographs just hours before stabbing two more victims.
Grinning for the camera in her final moments on the run, Dennehy appears to be having the time of her life in the images - revealed at Cambridge crown court today.
On the day the shots were taken Dennehy allegedly moaned "I want my fun" as she and her alleged accomplice Gary Stretch hunted down innocent dog walkers to kill at random.
And jurors were told she boasted of wanting to end her killing spree like notorious American criminals Bonnie and Clyde.
In one chilling shot, Dennehy, 31, wields a large knife - not the murder weapon used to kill three men and injured two others. In another she happily flashes her bra before her 7ft 3ins tall pal Stretch, 47, strikes the same pose.
Shortly after these pictures were taken, Dennehy leapt out of the Vauxhall Astra driven by Stretch and brutally stabbed two men, Robin Bereza and John Rogers, the court was told.
They were lucky to survive the vicious attacks in Hereford on April 2 last year.
The pictures were revealed as witness Mark Lloyd, who appears in two of the snaps, gave evidence yesterday.
He recalls meeting Dennehy at a flat belonging to a pal in Kingstone near Hereford on April 2. It was here where several of the pictures were taken.
When she greeted him, Dennehy proudly told Mr Lloyd: "Hello Mark, I'm a killer.
"I've killed three people, Gary helped dispose of them and I want to do some more."
She then went on to say: "I want some fun. You have had your fun Gary, I want some fun now."
Mr Lloyd says he was "terrified" as Dennehy brandished a knife, which was covered in blood, but then began flirting with him.
"She was caressing my backside and running her hand down my neck," he said.
"It was like being touched by a rattlesnake."
He was forced to join Dennehy and Stretch in their Vauxhall Astra to Hereford. On the way, Dennehy made Stretch pull over, saying: "I want a photo."
She asked Stretch and Mr Lloyd to pose near some houses because she thought Hereford was an attractive place.
In the car, Dennehy took a picture of Mr Lloyd making an offensive hand gesture, although Mr Lloyd told the jury he cannot recall this being taken.
She then begged Stretch to find her some "fun".
Stretch spotted Mr Bereza, 64, walking his pet dog shortly after this and suggested: "Will he do?", it is claimed.
Mr Lloyd says Dennehy jumped out of the car and began attacking the retired firefighter.
Describing the attack, Mr Lloyd said: "She was holding the knife like the film Psycho."
Mr Bereza was left fighting for his life and had to be airlifted to hospital.
Mr Lloyd added: "She gets in the car, she's happy as Larry, big smile on her face.
"She kissed Gary on the cheek and said 'thanks'."
Following this, Stretch drive the group just a few minutes away and pulled over close to where Mr Rogers was walking his dog.
Mr Lloyd described this attack as even more brutal than the first.
He said: "It was frenzied. She just went absolutely mad on the fella.
"Gary was just mumbling away."
Dennehy left Mr Rogers, 56, bleeding on the ground and stole his pet lurcher.
On returning to the car she said: "Look at my best mate. He's so cute."
Mr Lloyd said: "This dog was terrified. He was shaking in her lap."
After this Mr Lloyd said Dennehy was desperate to take the dog for a walk but shortly after, they were arrested by police.
Earlier the court heard witness Georgina Page also told how Dennehy boasted she wanted to end her killing spree like Bonnie and Clyde - who died in a gun fight with cops in 1934 after killing nine people.
Miss Page said Dennehy warned Stretch: "You know we're going to get caught and go to jail for a long time. I want to be caught like Bonnie and Clyde."
In a further grim revelation, Dennehy tucked into a ham sandwich while looking at the bloody corpse of one victim.
The jury heard Stretch, 47, remarked there was "lots of claret (blood) on the floor" while Dennehy munched on her snack.
According to Miss Page, Stretch said he couldn't kill anyone, describing himself as a "professional burglar".
Speaking about Dennehy eating a ham sandwich while in the same room as a bleeding body, Miss Page said: "You are mad Jo, why did you do that?"
In response, she replied: "They shouldn't have p***** me off, they shouldn't have flirted with me."
An "ecstatic" Dennehy jumped for joy when she saw news reports about her crime spree. However she complained the picture police used in their appeal to trace her was "horrible".
Miss Page, who Dennehy visited with Stretch on April 1 following the three murders, said her friend insisted on showing her a news report on TV Ceefax.
She recalled it describing Stretch as "Britain's tallest murder suspect", adding: "She was jumping all about. She was proud."
Miss Page also revealed disturbing details about Dennehy's past. She told how her pal showed her scars on her stomach and arms, which were from self-harming, and confessed she would sometimes self-harm during sex.
Dennehy has admitted stabbing John Chapman, 56, Lukasz Slaboszewski, 31, and her landlord Kevin Lee, 49, in the heart and dumping their bodies in ditches in Cambridgeshire in March last year.
Stretch, of Orton Goldhay, Peterborough, has denied three counts of preventing the lawful and decent burial of a body and two of attempted murder.
Layton, of Orton Goldhay, Peterborough, denies two counts of preventing the lawful and decent burial of a body and one of perverting the course of justice.
The trial continues.
source:www.mirror.co.uk
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