PA Dempsey Nibbs murdered his partner Judith

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Dempsey Nibbs, 69, became enraged after vivacious Meals On Wheels worker Judith Nibbs, 60, taunted him as their relationship fell apart by saying she had been seeing other men. On the evening of April 10 2014, Nibbs attacked the mother of his two children at their flat in Hoxton, east London. He knocked her out with an iron bar before cutting her head off, smashing it up with a mallet and disposing of the pieces in the lavatory. Afterwards, the crane driver wrote a note to his 30-year-old son Kirk and called 999 to say police would find two bodies at the property. A police officer broke down the door when he saw Mrs Nibbs' headless body through the letterbox and bravely grappled a shotgun and knife from Nibbs as he attempted to stab himself in the bathroom. Afterwards, Nibbs, who had been diagnosed with prostate and cancer, and wore a colostomy bag said he killed his wife because he thought she was a "snake" but jurors heard he had shown no signs of mental illness. Prosecutor Crispin Aylett QC told an Old Bailey jury that the couple's relationship soured in the spring of 2014 as Nibbs suspected his wife of having affairs. Their son said that since his mother no longer had to care for his younger sister, Nibbs felt she had changed and was not "the housewife" she used to be.

TIM STEWART NEWS LTD Judith Nibbs had her head cut off

When Nibbs had asked him to go through his mother's computer, he found videos of her blowing kisses and saying "I love you" as well as sexually explicit pictures which he stored in a file entitled "Mum Slut". Nibbs searched his wife's drawers and discovered bank transfer slips from their joint account to one in Morocco in the name of a close male friend and neighbour with whom she had gone on a road trip to Rabat in 2013. An examination of her computer was to show that she went on to exchange sexually explicit messages on Skype with another man called Khalid in Morocco. Mrs Nibbs had confided in her sister and a colleague at Meals On Wheels that her husband had threatened to kill her and grabbed her by the throat. During a row on April 7, Mrs Nibbs, who was originally from Kirkham, near Preston, Lancashire, admitted seeing other men, taunting Nibbs by saying: "I have had sex eight times." The next day, the mother of five predicted her own killing as she left work, with the words: "If I'm not in Friday, I might be dead." Nibbs, of the Charles Estate in Hoxton, told jurors he had not meant to kill his partner when he went to confront her over money taken from their bank account which he took as "proof" of her infidelity. He said he had only meant to "slap her around a bit" and it was only after she was dead that he cut her head off in anger because she "betrayed" him.

PA Dempsey Nibbs

Nibbs, who worked for building firm Balfour Beatty told the court he had armed himself with a metal bar in case there was a struggle because his illness had left him too frail to defend himself. He said: “When I confront her I wouldn't let her get the better of me.” Nibbs claimed he took a heavy metal bar with him “to get her attention, like a threat”. He added: “I went up to her, she said "What do you want?" and I hit her. “I just tapped her on the head, I tapped her to get her attention.” Nibbs claimed that his wife then lunged for his stomach area and yanked on his colostomy bag. He said he put the metal bar in her mouth to stop her screaming in order to not disturb the neighbours. The tussle ended with them falling to the floor, the court heard. Nibbs said: “She started to scream again so I had to put the bar in again to stop her screaming. “All of a sudden she just let go and I took the bar out of her mouth. “Her eyes rolled over in her head and she was dead.” Nibbs said he shouted at his partner's body calling her a “f**king traitor” and a 'f**ing snake' for ruining his plans to retire to Hastings. I said: “”I’ll cut your head off”.” “She led me to believe that everything was fine. She went back on her word. “I was going to cut her head off but I didn't want to do it in the living room. “It was the mess. I suppose I didn't want it to be messy.”

TIM STEWART NEWS LTD Dempsey Nibbs, 69, murdered his partner Judith

I started to cut her head off. I used a knife. Dempsey Nibbs

He said: ”I started to cut her head off. I used a knife. The knife was in the kitchen.” “To be honest with you, if the toilet was big enough it was in my mind to take the head and flush it down the toilet. “It wasn't big enough. That's why I had to smash it up. “I went into the cupboard and got the lump hammer. I hit it once with the hammer and the head split open.” Asked why he had put the cushion and rags over his wife's head he said: “I didn't want to make a noise.

GETTY IMAGES The case was heard at the Old Bailey