Chef kept wife’s body in freezer for 3 years, court told

A CHEF killed his wife with a cast iron pan and kept her body in a freezer for three years, the Old Bailey heard yesterday.

Peter Wallner moved wife Melanie’s frozen body from the freezer in the garden shed to a wheelie bin when he moved out of their house last year.

But dustmen refused to take the plastic bin because it was too heavy, and the landlord saw her ankle when he opened the bin, the jury heard.