A Dundee electrician has told of his horror after walking in on a murderer cooking his wife’s remains.

Brad Coyne, 28, who grew up in the Law area, was called to Marcus Volke’s house in Brisbane, Australia, on Saturday the same night he was boiling his transgender wife Mayang Prasetyo, 27.

Speaking exclusively to the Tele, Brad told how a routine call-out would lead to the most horrifying night of his life, as he met Volke, who had killed his wife and dismembered her.

The former Morgan Academy pupil said: “I was called out on Saturday night to put the power back on in this flat, in what is quite a posh area. When you listen to his call, he was as cool as a cucumber.

“I’ve worked in prisons and when I turned up he didn’t look like the type of person who could have done something so horrible he seemed just a normal guy.”

But Brad first became suspicious when he walked into the flat to a pungent smell.

He said: “The guy had his hand bandaged but claimed it had been an accident I just wanted to get the job done as it was 7.20 at night, so I didn’t really think anything of it.

“But then we walked in through the front door and as we did, he said ‘please excuse the smell, I’m cooking pig’s broth’, and I thought that was unusual for this time of year because it’s getting warmer.

“The flat was absolutely pitch black and I went looking around trying to find the switchboard to get the power back on and he followed me around.

“We went into the bathroom which had laundry in it and there was a cupboard that had the washing machine in it which I didn’t know at the time had bits of his wife’s body in it, like her head and arms.

“Apparently he had put them in there before I had arrived.”

Brad and Marcus eventually gave up trying to find the switchboard and called the building manager to try to find out where it was.

When she came round, the switchboard was quickly found and Brad who lives with his Australian partner of six years, Andriana managed to fix the issue and get the lights back on.

It was at this moment that Marcus showed his first weakness, asking the building manager to leave as he was “stressed” and needed privacy.

While she left, Brad was asked to test the cooker.

He said: “Marcus asked me to test the cooker before I left, so I turned it on and it was all working fine.

“I didn’t know at the time that, in the big pot on the stove, were other parts of his wife’s body I believe he’d been cooking her feet at the time.”

Brad left the property and went home, but the grim reality of what he had been involved in was realised at about 11pm that same night when he received a call from the police.

Brad, who moved to Australia for a new start with his family in 2002, said: “I was quite annoyed and I said ‘what you calling me at this time of night for?’

“I was told I had been involved in an incident earlier in the night that was more serious than I might have thought at the time. It was at that moment, that it hit me what had happened.

“I was then told I was the last person to see him, as the police had turned up shortly afterwards, the guy ran away and killed himself.”

Brad later gave a statement to the police about what he saw on the night and he has been involved in a media frenzy ever since.

He admits unknowingly walking past a dismembered woman and shaking hands with a murderer is still “surreal”.

He said: “It’s all a bit fresh at the moment, I don’t think what happened has probably sunk in yet.

“To actually test the cooker that her body was in is still hard to believe. I’m not trying to be macho, I’m trying to be normal.

“However, I truly believe I was meant to go to this job. I’m very streetwise compared to people here.

“I knew something was up, but I just wanted to get the job done, so I kept calm.

“If it had been someone else, who knows what could have happened?

“I work with my brother Reave, who is 21 and if he had been called out it might have been totally different. He was only nine when he left Dundee and is smaller than me.”

https://www.youtube.com/embed/HySTZXrzc3w?rel=0Brad’s family made new start in OzBrad moved to Australia with his family to make a new start away from Dundee.

Brad attended Morgan Academy as a child while living on Kinghorne Road.

He is proud of his roots and still has a Dundee accent, mixed in with an occasional Australian twang.

He works for an electrician firm called Positive Power with his younger brother Reave, who was just nine when they moved to the country.

Although he was being rested on Saturday night, Brad normally takes his pet Rottweiler, William Wallace, to jobs around Brisbane.Reports of bad smell from flatPolice attended the property in the Queensland capital’s inner city on Saturday night after receiving complaints of a bad smell from the flat.

The body of Mayang, an Indonesian, was found boiling in chemicals in a cooking pot on the stove and in plastic bags all across the apartment on Saturday.

It’s reported that the pair married in Denmark last year, however the marriage may not have been legally binding as transgender Mayang was still a man.

Her husband Marcus Volke, 28, a chef who is said to have worked as an escort, slit his own throat after fleeing police by jumping over a balcony when they attended the flat.

Police found Volke’s body in a wheelie bin in a street next to the complex, shortly after the dismembered body was found.

Australian police chief Detective Senior Sergeant Tom Armitt said they believed Mayang was killed on Thursday evening or Friday.

He said: “At this present time our investigations are centring around the idea that it’s simply a domestic violence matter that has become out of hand.

“In the course of our business in the Queensland police, sometimes we are confronted with disturbing jobs and disturbing images.

“It’s something that we just have to deal with.”