PHOTO:Man ‘cut off partner’s head and flushed it down toilet because she was a snake’!
A man decapitated his partner of 30 years before trying to flush her head down the toilet because he thought she was a ‘snake’, a court has heard.
Dempsey Nibbs, 69, d enies murdering the mother of his two children, Judith, in a brutal
attack at their home in Hoxton in April 2014.
A trial
at the Old Bailey heard Nibbs had shown no signs of mental illness before the
incident in April 2014.
On the day before she was attacked the
mum-of-five even joked ‘if I’m not in Friday, I might be dead’.
The
gruesome nature of her death was relayed to the court by Prosecutor Crispin
Aylett who told the jury to ‘brace themselves’ for what he was about to say. On the night of April 10, he said the
crane driver attacked his alleged victim knocking her out.
He then told jurors: ‘What might otherwise
have been family tragedy now becomes terrible. You will, I am afraid, have to
brace yourselves.
‘Having
attacked his wife, the defendant then took up a kitchen knife and cut off her
head.
‘Nor does the horror end there: having
decapitated his wife, the defendant began to break her head into pieces with a
mallet and a metal bar.
‘He then flushed the pieces down the
lavatory.’
He
added: ‘Quite why the defendant decapitated Judith and then disposed of her
head is not entirely clear but it may well be that he did it out of pure hatred
at the sight of his wife’s face.’
The court heard Nibbs was apprehended
after he rang police to tell them they would find ‘a couple of dead bodies’. He
also wrote a suicide note to his son Kirk.
He was found by officers with a shotgun
and kitchen knife which he used to stab himself in the neck and stomach.
Nibbs admits killing his partner but
denies murder claiming he was ‘defending himself’.
The
defendant also said that he cut the mother-of-five’s head off because he
thought she was a “snake” and disposed of it in the toilet, jurors were told.
Three days before the incident, Judith,
had admitted seeing other men, taunting Nibbs by saying: ‘I have had sex eight
times’.
Nibbs, of the Charles Estate, in Hoxton,
denies murder and obstructing the coroner from holding an inquest in the
violent death of Judith Nibbs by disposing of her decapitated head
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