7:00am Friday 25th January 2008
By Daily Echo reporter
TWO women who kissed over the body former West Moors schoolgirl Stacey Mitchell smiled as an Australian court heard it took the teenager half an hour to die.
The lesbian couple bludgeoned 16-year-old Stacey with a concrete block, strangled her with a chain and then videoed her blood-splattered bedroom and semi-naked body while they mocked her English accent, a court in Perth heard.
One of the girls was a member of a vampire sub-culture, interested in violence and drinking blood.
Jessica Ellen Stasinowsky, 20, and her girlfriend Valerie Paige Parashumti, 19, have pleaded guilty to the murder, which stemmed from their obsessive need to prove their commitment to each other.
Prosecutor David Dempster told the West Australian Supreme Court the pair had killed Stacey, who they had known for three days, because she had been "so annoying" after moving in with them in late December 2006.
Stacey, had emigrated to Perth with her parents Sophie and Ian Mitchell from West Moors in 2001 The girls attacked Stacey at their Perth home after giving her alcohol containing a sleeping pill.
Mr Dempster said Parashumti repeatedly bashed Stacey in the head with a concrete block as the teenager tried to flee.
Stasinowksy then wrapped a belt chain around her neck while Parashumti continued to beat her with the block.
They monitored her pulse after she fell unconscious and then kissed each other over the body after she died, he said.
The two girls grinned at each other in court today as Mr Dempster said it took their victim more than half an hour to die.
Their behaviour in court earned a number of warnings from Justice Peter Blaxell.
Footage shot on a mobile phone showed the lovers mopping blood and pulling a blanket back from Stacey's semi-naked body.
"She is then abused by both offenders and they both mock her English accent," Mr Dempster said.
The two-minute scene ended with laughter.
The pair dumped Stacey's body head-first in a wheelie bin behind the house and were still discussing ways of disposing of her body several days later when police arrived looking for the teenager, who had been reported missing by her parents on December 17.
Parashumti's lawyer, David Edwardson, QC, said the murder appeared to be senseless, sadistic and without justification.
Parashumti had no remorse about killing Stacey but asked her lawyer to apologise for the distress her actions caused the teenager's family.
The pair will be sentenced on March 7.
Their housemate David Ross John Haynes, 27, was sentenced to two years' jail last year after pleading guilty to being an accessory after the fact to the murder, which took place at his father's house.
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