Joanna Dennehy, the woman who murdered three men in a 10-day killing spree, was captured on CCTV flirting with police officers during her arrest. The footage, released by West Mercia Police, shows Dennehy smiling and making eye contact with armed officers as she sat in a green Vauxhall Astra in Hereford.
Dennehy, 31, from Peterborough, stabbed her victims repeatedly with a 3-inch pocket knife. Her first victim, Lukasz Slaboszewski, 31, was killed on 19 March after he thought he was about to have sex with her. His body was dumped in a wheelie bin and not discovered until days later.
On 29 March, Good Friday, Dennehy murdered Kevin Lee, 49, who ran a lettings business. Lee had bought her CDs earlier that day, unaware that she was angry with him over unpaid work. His body was found in a ditch near Newborough, dressed in a black sequin dress with his buttocks exposed, a form of 'final humiliation'.
Later that same day, Dennehy stabbed John Chapman, 57, three times in the chest after he allegedly looked at her in the bath. She then phoned a friend and sang Britney Spears' 'Oops I Did It Again'. Police believe she killed 'for fun'.
After two days on the run with accomplice Gary Stretch, Dennehy was arrested in Hereford. She has refused to explain her motives, but a forensic psychiatrist diagnosed her with paraphilia sadomasochism, a preference for sexual activity involving pain or humiliation.
