Prostitute jailed for chopping up her partner

A “cruel, money-grabbing” prostitute has been jailed for 16 years after confessing to killing her partner who has been missing since New Year’s Day 2010.

The body of Offaly man Thomas Groome has never been found but his partner, Jane Buttle, 56, admitted on two occasions to different people that she had chopped Mr Groome’s body into little pieces and thrown them onto a bonfire.

Buttle, who refused to name her accomplice, also confessed to plundering Mr Groome’s bank account.