A femicide has caused horror in Britain

 

A man murdered his wife, dismembered her and hid her body parts in their apartment for a week before dumping them in plastic bags in a river.

The 28-year-old had joked when authorities were looking for her, telling officers she might be hiding under the bed, the court was told.



The court was told the 28-year-old man had a history of abusing animals, and the Mail reveals the sadistic killer had previously punished his wife by killing their pets in gruesome fashion.

He put the puppy in the washing machine and the hamsters in a blender
A source said the man put the 26-year-old's puppy in the washing machine, leaving his wife to discover the dead dog inside with the drum still spinning.

The 26-year-old had confided that her partner had killed her hamsters by putting them in a blender and microwave, while at one point she had gone to the police station with her rabbits to escape his rage.

The same source said the 26-year-old "never explained why she had done it", and said she believed the woman was "controlled and subservient" to her husband.

"She told us she loved him, but the first time I met him, I took an instant dislike to him," the source continued. "There was just something strange about him."

'What benefits do I get if my wife dies?
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He then searched the internet for: "What benefits do I get if my wife dies" and "Can someone haunt me after they die?"

The killer's past
The court was told that the 28-year-old had been charged in 2013 with assaulting a previous partner. Also in 2016, the man was charged with three offenses related to the disclosure of private photos of another ex-partner. A year later, he admitted to breaching restraining orders relating to the same victim.

The prosecutor said police launched a murder investigation after parts of the 26-year-old's body were found in the River Witham - 10 miles from her Lincoln flat - in March last year.

Lincolnshire Police had received a call expressing concern for the 26-year-old's safety on March 24 and when the 28-year-old finally answered the door, he claimed he had been the victim of a domestic assault by his wife the previous weekend, showing officers a bite mark which, as the judge was told, was probably caused by the 26-year-old while trying to defend herself at the time she was murdered.

The saw in the kitchen
The prosecutor said there were bloodstained sheets in the bathroom and a saw on the kitchen floor, while the apartment smelled strongly of bleach.

The man claimed he had no idea where his wife was and told a series of lies, including that she had left the house five days earlier with women from a local mental health support group.

Police conducted another search of the apartment later that day.



The prosecutor added: "At one point, the man joked that his wife might be hiding under the bed."

Mattson was arrested on suspicion of murder, but did not cooperate with police during questioning. Garden pruners, two knives and a hammer were also seized from the house.

How the body was discovered
At 6pm on March 25, a member of the public noticed several plastic bags in the River Witham in Bassingham, a village 10 miles away, and opened one of the bags. Inside was a severed hand.

Police divers recovered 224 remains of the 26-year-old's body from the bags, including her shaved head. It took more than 13 hours for the medical examiner to complete the autopsy, but the dismemberment was so extensive that he was ultimately unable to determine the exact cause of death.

The prosecutor said security cameras from the home where the couple lived recorded him using the apartment building's elevator to move bags, with the help of a supermarket trolley, from their 14th-floor apartment to his car in the early hours of the morning. hours of March 25, and later withdrew £50 from his wife's bank account.

He said: "The most likely scenario is that the man murdered his wife in the bedroom, dismembered her body in the bathtub and then stored the organs in the kitchen cupboard, before bagging her remains."

The court was told that the 28-year-old had recruited a friend of his age from school to help him dispose of his wife's body.

The next day, March 26, a message on the man's phone read "just got £50 to get rid of a body".

The pair met at college and began dating in 2016.

The 26-year-old's mother read an emotional statement in court, describing the 28-year-old as a "satanic monster" who had condemned the family to a "lifetime of grief".

The mother of the unfortunate girl said that her husband's controlling and coercive behavior had also deprived the family of the opportunity to have contact with their daughter in recent years.

The man pleaded guilty to murder last month. Another man, also 28, pleaded guilty to obstructing the coroner by helping his friend dispose of the body.

The two men will be tried on Monday.