- Mark Brown, 41, of St Leonards, East Sussex, found guilty of murdering two women.
- Leah Ware and Alexandra Morgan went missing six months apart in 2021.
- Brown has always maintained that he does not know where Ms. Ware is and that she is still alive.
A builder who killed two women he met online through an escort website has been found guilty. Leah Ware and Alexandra Morgan went missing six months apart in 2021, and their deaths were committed by Mark Brown, 41, of St Leonards, East Sussex.
According to testimony given at his trial at Hove Crown Court, he allegedly told his boss that he would be “going down” for at least 25 years.
On January 13, Brown—who has never spoken publicly about what happened to Ms. Ware—will be sentenced.
“This is obviously a case of the utmost gravity, and the effect on the relatives of the victims must be extremely terrible,” said judge Mr. Justice Nicholas Hilliard.
He said Brown will be sentenced to life in prison and he will have to decide the minimum prison term or “indeed consider if he will ever be released for parole license”.
The remains of Ms. Ware have never been located. Brown, a long-term partner and father of one, has consistently insisted that he does not know where she is and that she is still alive.
However, the judge informed the court that he would take Brown’s request into consideration before sentence if he wanted to confirm what he had done with her corpse.
Brown had asserted that Ms. Morgan, a single mother of two known to her friends and family as Alex, had slipped and hit her head on a tool or piece of machinery in a workshop he had rented at Little Bridge Farm, close to Hastings.
He testified in court that there was “a lot of blood” and that he thought she had already away.
