Decapitated ex-top model ‘fed to fish’

A FORMER top model was decapitated and “fed to the fish” by her boyfriend, the Old Bailey has heard.

Melissa Halstead’s head and hands were never found but her mutilated body was discovered floating in a Dutch canal in 1990.

It was another 18 years before she was identified using DNA, Brian Altman QC, prosecuting, told jurors.

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