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The 52-year-old from the Siberian town of Luzino found the human bones and a skull and immediately told his 60-year-old wife.

According to Russian media, she told him: “Don’t worry, it’s my first husband.

“Bury the remains again, forget about it, and we won’t tell the police.”

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But he told officers and the unidentified woman confessed to killing him, said Russian cops.

The killer claims her first husband came home drunk in 1997 and began hitting her.

So she says she grabbed an axe and hit the man in the head.

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When she discovered he was dead she sliced up his body and buried the parts in the garden - where they lat undisturbed for 21 years.

And when her neighbours asked what had happened, she said he had left for work and simply never came back.

A police spokesman said: "It's possible that, by planting potatoes, this man saved his own life."

She faces 10 years in prison if found guilty of the murder.