Detectives investigating the disappearance of a mother of three wrote to a suspected killer appealing for help to find the missing woman, a court heard.

The letter was sent to Mark Brown asking for help to find missing Leah Ware after he was remanded in custody accused of murdering Alexandra Morgan

Two months later, police charged him with Leah's murder.

Part time builder and security guard, Mark Brown denies murdering both women at Little Bridge Farm near Hastings.

The 41-year-old of St Leonards has admitted being present when Alex Morgan died and disposing of her body by fire.

Alex Morgan, 34, a single mother-of-two from Sissinghurst, Kent, was reported missing in November 2021 after failing to return from a weekend away.

She was last seen filling her car at a petrol station near her home in Cranbrook, Kent on the morning of November 14.

Her charred remains were found at a building site where Brown had been working in Sevenoaks, Kent.

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Leah Ware, 33, a mother-of-three from Hastings, was last seen by a friend in the early hours of May 6, 2021.

Leah Ware has not been traced since she was last seen living in a shipping container owned by Brown inside a barn at Little Bridge Farm.

Brown was charged with the murder of Alex Morgan on November 28, 2021.

He was charged with the murder of Leah Ware on February 1, this year.

He was remanded to HMP Lewes where he was spoken to by prison staff.

In a letter from the Surrey and Sussex Major Crime Team, detectives pleaded for help to find Leah Ware.

Police asked if he could help with her current whereabouts so they could check on her welfare.

A prison officer who spoke to Brown recorded his responses as notes on the letter.

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She told the court: “I was expecting to just issue the letter.

“The notes were made where there was space on the letter.”

The notes read to the jury said Mark Brown had been in a relationship with Leah Ware and he had not seen her for three to four months.

He told the officer Leah Ware had mental health issues and he was still collecting her medications.

Brown said Leah was living in woods near Little Bridge Farm and he would leave the pills out for her and she would collect them.

He described Leah Ware as a traveller who would disappear.

“Took you four months to find her before, you won’t find her if she doesn’t want to be found,” the notes recorded.

Brown told the officer seeing police at Little Bridge Farm would scare her away.

“She will disappear with seeing police on the farm.”

The trial at Hove Trial Centre continues.