characterized Gleason-Mitchell.
Additionally, he claimed that Isabella would have experienced “utter terror” in Jeff’s presence and that his attacks
were “monstrous.”
Just 30 minutes after the murder, and again in the days that followed, the couple could be seen laughing and joking
in CCTV footage that Suffolk Police has now made public.
The two fled after locking Isabella in a lavatory at the East Villas Housing Unit in Ipswich after wheeling her body
about the town in a pushchair.
But just how were they going to get away with it?
The jury heard testimony from many witnesses and reviewed countless evidence dossiers throughout the seven-week
trial at Ipswich Crown Court.
This included text exchanges and web searches discovered on the phones of the couple when they were arrested in
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, early on July 1.
“In the trial Chelsea said Scott had asked her to buy a shovel and that effectively they were readying themselves for
disposing of Isabella,” said Detective Craig Powell.
“There was evidence in the days after Isabella’s death they were looking at ways to leave the country without
passports, and other travel methods, to no doubt flee.”
Scotland and Amsterdam were among the places they had looked into, and they had also researched how to get to
Southend-on-Sea in Essex.
However, on June 30, 2023, police officers found Isabella’s body in a pushchair, behind a pile of blankets, foiling
their escape plan.
After hearing from the mother that her daughter had been deceased for roughly three days, Gleason-Mitchell’s friend
Joanne Gardner had sounded the alarm.
According to Ms. Gardner, Gleason-Mitchell informed her that she had refrained from calling the police because she
was afraid she would “get done” due to Isabella’s bruises.
The pair had traveled with Isabella from their hometown of Biggleswade in Bedfordshire to Great Yarmouth in
Norfolk before arriving in Ipswich on June 19.
For the next three weeks, they spent time at a caravan park, camped in a tent on the beach at nearby Caister-on-Sea,
and stayed in the town’s St George Hotel.
They denied offers of assistance during this time, put sunglasses over Isabella’s damaged face, and told council
housing authorities that Gleason-Mitchell was escaping an abusive relationship.
By the time they were able to find temporary housing in Ipswich, Jeff had been repeatedly beating the once “healthy
and contented” toddler.
The court heard Isabella suffered injuries consistent with “high-velocity traffic accidents” or “being kicked by a
horse”.
The blonde-haired toddler, who had traces of cocaine and cannabis in her system, died from a bone marrow
embolism as a consequence of skeletal trauma.
After Isabella died, with her body in a pushchair, the couple acted as if nothing had happened, travelling on buses
and buying an X-Box while showing “no grief or emotion”.
Her body was “treated with disdain” and with a “bag of shopping casually placed” on top of it in the pushchair.
Chelsea Gleason-Mitchell “stood by and did nothing” as her partner Jeff beat her daughter Isabella
Later, after leaving Isabella’s body in the apartment, the couple went to the town center of Ipswich to visit stores, a
pub, and a McDonald’s.
After that, they took a train to Bury St Edmunds’ Corn Exchange bar, where CCTV showed them drinking and going
about their “normal” lives.
“As a parent I just couldn’t fathom what we could see on the CCTV cameras, in no way did they appear to be showing
any grief or emotion,” said Detective Insp. Powell.
It was repulsive. There wasn’t much emotion in their acts or reactions at the time, something I still find difficult to
understand today.”
They were both arrested in the early hours of July 1st, and bodycam footage showed Jeff saying, “I never murdered
her.”
However, the court heard how Jeff’s “evil temper” and irritation over the toddler’s difficulties with potty training led
to prolonged violent attacks against her.
In his 40-year career as a bone pathologist, Prof. Anthony Freemont told the trial that he had never seen a child with
such a severe pelvic damage.
Her mother “stood by and did nothing” as Jeff would discipline the youngster with cold showers and kicks and
stamps.
It was also mentioned that Gleason-Mitchell’s family claimed she had “changed” and increased her alcohol use
during their 2019 connection.
Though she “thought it was just a phase he was going through,” Gleason-Mitchell admitted that she “didn’t do
anything to protect” her daughter from Jeff.
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