A SWEET-NATURED British music tutor embarked on a horrifying journey across the Atlantic to pay a sinister US sadist thousands of pounds to end her life in a brutal woodland execution, terrifying documents reveal.
Gentle Sonia Exelby, 48, made the desperate 4,000-mile flight from her home in Portsmouth straight into the hands of cold-blooded killer Kenneth Wright.
The ex-serviceman – who met the vulnerable woman on a dark fetish website – dragged her to a remote woodland cabin before stabbing her to death and dumping her body in a shallow grave.
And in a stomach-churning twist, the heartless perpetrator sent nauseating excuses to his sickened wife from behind bars, arrogantly trying to justify his heinous crime.
DESPERATE PLEA
Vulnerable Sonia, known to loved ones as “Lamby” for her softly-spoken and caring nature, had spent years battling severe depression and mental health struggles.
Isolated in her flat, the talented pianist and chorister was sucked into dark online forums where she eventually crossed paths with former serviceman Wright.
The twisted ex-soldier manipulated the vulnerable tutor, forming a sickening plot where she agreed to pay him over £3,000 to carry out a brutal contract on her own life.
Driven by desperation, Sonia boarded a flight to the United States to meet Wright, hoping he would put a swift end to her mental agony.
But the horror that awaited her inside a secluded forest cabin in Florida was far more agonizing than she could have ever imagined.
In a chilling final message secretly sent to a friend while her captor was in the shower, a terrified Sonia typed out her harrowing last words.
“I thought he’d do it quick and not give my mind time to stew,” she wrote in a desperate text.
“My time’s up.”
NAUSEATING EXCUSES
Shortly after sending the message, the gentle music teacher was subjected to a horrific ordeal before being savagely stabbed to death.
Days later, horrified police sniffer dogs unearthed her body buried in a shallow grave deep within dense woodland.
Wright was quickly rounded up by cops and hit with first-degree murder and kidnapping charges.
Yet despite the mountains of shocking evidence against him, the callous killer has offered nauseating, unacceptable excuses for the butcher’s job he carried out.
Chilling jailhouse transcripts reveal Wright desperately tried to portray his horrific violence as an act of “mercy” to his long-suffering wife.
“I was trying to help somebody,” the cold-hearted monster whined in phone calls from his cell as he awaited trial.
“I tried to give Sonia what she wanted. I tried to do it in a sense that was compassionate and not being a freaking monster.”
Admitting the cash was a driving factor, the killer confessed: “We needed money, but we didn’t need it this bad.”
Despite facing the death penalty, the remorseless brute shockingly insisted: “I don’t believe I did anything wrong.”
DEEPLY LOVED
The horrifying details of Sonia’s tragic final hours have sent shockwaves across both sides of the Atlantic, leaving her shattered family struggling to process the sheer scale of the nightmare.
Her heartbroken relatives are now desperately striving to remember the sweet, compassionate woman who loved music and animals, rather than the dark monster who took her life.
In a tear-jerking tribute, her devastated family remembered her as a “truly beautiful person, inside and out” who brought warmth to everyone she met.
“You were deeply loved, and you will always be deeply loved,” they said.
“We miss you more than words can ever say. We love you so much, always, and forever.”
The twisted perpetrator remains behind bars in the US awaiting trial, where prosecutors are expected to push for the ultimate punishment for his wicked crime.
