Two men planned to decapitate Joss Stone with a samurai sword and dump her body in a river because of her links to the Royal family, a court heard yesterday.<\/p>\nTwo men planned to decapitate Joss Stone with a samurai sword and dump her body in a river because of her links to the Royal family, a court heard yesterday.<\/p>\n
The singer, who was a guest at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, was considered by her would-be killers to be a favourite of the Queen, a jury was told. <\/p>\n
In handwritten notes, Kevin Liverpool and Junior Bradshaw described Miss Stone and the Queen as \u2018she-devils\u2019.<\/p>\n
The notes, which set out the murder plot, were found by police shortly after the pair were arrested not far from Miss Stone\u2019s isolated country home in Devon equipped with a 3ft samurai sword, a knife, a spike, hammers, balaclavas, maps, gaffer tape and black bags, the court was told.<\/p>\n
\u2018Eagle-eyed\u2019 villagers had called the police after Liverpool and Bradshaw, who had travelled from Manchester in their Fiat Punto, were seen driving back and forth looking for the soul singer\u2019s home.<\/p>\n
At one point they even asked directions from a local postman and showed him a photograph of Miss Stone, asking where she lived.<\/p>\n
As well as the weapons, police found numerous notes containing information about her \u00a3500,000 home and indicating that they planned to murder her, Exeter Crown Court was told. One note referred to Miss Stone, 25, who is worth \u00a310million, by her given first name and read: \u2018Jocelyn, she-devil in the flesh.\u2019 Another document stated: \u2018The Queen, she-devil. <\/p>\n
Her system takes the p***. But she likes Joss Stone… invited to attend Wills\u2019s wedding. Where\u2019s the sense in that? The Queen just doesn\u2019t give a ****.\u2019<\/p>\n
Prosecutor Simon Morgan QC said the defendants\u2019 motive in targeting Miss Stone \u2013 real name Jocelyn Eve Stoker \u2013 was irrelevant to their guilt.<\/p>\n
But he said the notes gave possible clues. \u2018The documents appear to express disapproval of the Royal family,\u2019 said Mr Morgan. <\/p>\n
\u2018Joss Stone associates with members of the Royal family. Her concerts have been attended by members of the Royal family and she was invited to the Royal Wedding. Hence she becomes a target.\u2019<\/p>\n
Other notes expressed hatred of Miss Stone and described her as corrupt. They included terms such as \u2018decapitate\u2019, \u2018rob and kill\u2019, \u2018Jocelyn Stoker… RIP forever\u2019 and \u2018once Jocelyn\u2019s dead… find a river to dump her\u2019.<\/p>\n
Liverpool, 35, and Bradshaw, 32, both deny charges of conspiracy to murder, rob and cause grievous bodily harm to Miss Stone in June 2011. <\/p>\n
The pair, acting with unknown accomplices, had carried out research on Miss Stone at their local library, it was alleged. <\/p>\n
Liverpool and Bradshaw were also said to have watched her appearance on the television programme MTV Cribs, in which famous people guide viewers around their homes.<\/p>\n
The jury was told that after the pair\u2019s arrest police found a crossbow and a BB gun, a type of airgun, at their home in Longsight, Manchester.<\/p>\n
Mr Morgan added: \u2018Joss Stone is an extremely wealthy young woman. These defendants drove from Manchester to find her. <\/p>\n
\u2018Fortunately they were not successful, although she was at home. They were reported by the eagle-eyed people of small communities.\u2019<\/p>\n
Before their arrest near Cullompton in Devon, Liverpool and Bradshaw had stopped in the early hours of June 13, 2011 at a motorway service station in Gloucestershire which they left without paying for fuel, the court heard. <\/p>\n
The prosecution says the pair hatched the plot before the day of their arrest and referred to a text message sent in mid-January of that year which speaks of \u2018looking to take out Jocelyn\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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