Horror photos show oil drum where body of mum Alex Morgan was burnt before bone & teeth found inside in double ‘murder’
HORROR photos have shown the oil drum where the body of a mum was burnt before bones and teeth were found following an alleged double murder.
Cops found 34-year-old Alex Morgan's remains including burned bone fragments and teeth, inside the drum in a skip at a building site near Sevenoaks, Kent.
The single mother-of-two was reported missing in November 2021.
Mark Brown, 41, of East Sussex, is accused of murdering Morgan and Leah Ware, 33, a court heard.
Brown was working at the building site at the time of Morgan's disappearance but has denied murdering the two women at Little Bridge Farm.
Alex also left clues including a note and directions to Little Bridge Farm where she worried she would die, Duncan Atkinson KC told a jury.
And Kent Police have now released a number of photos following the shocking incident.
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One snap allegedly shows the oil drum where she was horrifically burnt inside before he later dumped her in a skip.
While a second reportedly shows the box of clues Alex left behind including a phone, cash and rollerblades.
A court heard, cops found a large sum of cash, mobile telephone and handwritten notes at Alex Morgan’s home. One note included the PIN for a mobile phone.
The phone had stored pictures which the note described as “photos evidence Brighton Premier Inn or Travel Lodge, security company on site”.
The note also included instructions on where to find Little Bridge Farm, it read: “check postcode TN34 5NY Rock Lane, opposite Bartletts."
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Another image released by cops shows what is believed to be Morgan's white Mini Cooper following Brown’s gold Jaguar into Little Bridge Farm in Hastings.
The jury were shown screenshots of WhatsApp messages between mum Alex and Brown in the days before she disappeared on November 14 last year.
In the messages, Brown wrote: “A job has come up I could use you on.
“It’s risk free and worth a lot of money. Over a 100k. I’ll fill you in properly in person.”
Duncan Atkinson told the jury Brown had been searching for violent porn online around the same time of the WhatsApp messages.
He said: “Just before the second set of messages, the defendant had searched on the word ‘beaten’ and that just after the last set he had searched on the word ‘rape’.
“You will want to consider whether it is a coincidence that Alex Morgan should die when she attended her rendezvous, or whether what she feared was what the defendant intended.”
The court heard Brown told a work friend he was going to prison for double murder despite only being arrested over one death.
Asked if he had killed two women, Brown said he could not comment.
The court heard he said: “It depends on what they find at my yard.”
Mr Aktinson told the jury: “The defendant told him “the police have my phone and I am going to be arrested”.
“He was asked what for and said “Murder... double… I’m going away for 25 to life."
Mr Atkinson said: “The reference by the defendant to “double”, at a time when he had not been arrested for the murder of Leah Ware was significant."
Brown had also taken elaborate steps to cover his track according to Mr Atkinson.
He added: “The steps taken demonstrate careful thought and cool, callous preparation.
“They are the product not of panic at an accident but of responsibility for a killing."
Part time security guard and labourer, Mark Brown had offered sex worker Alex Morgan a large sum of money to spend a number of days with him.
Atkinson continued: “She clearly realised that it may not be above board, because she left that trail of clues for her sons, and the police, to find.”
Mr Atkinson told the jury: “The note thus referred to where the defendant worked as security and to the location where Morgan was to travel to meet him, and, perhaps as she feared, to meet her death.”
Brown had been working at the building site when Alex disappeared and had asked his employer if he could dump something in a skip.
Cops identified charred teeth and bone fragments found around a brazier in the skip as belonging to Alex Morgan.
Jewellery and hair straighteners belonging to Alex were also found in the skip.
“You can therefore conclude that beyond question, very sadly, Alexandra Morgan is dead,” Mr Atkinson said.
Lewes Crown Court in Hove heard a stash of prescription drugs for another woman were found in his van.
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Leah Ware had been kept as a virtual prisoner at Little Bridge Farm and had not been seen for six months when Brown was quizzed.
The trial at Hove Trial Centre continues.
