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.

Fri, 04 Mar, 2011 - 00:00
Shenai Raif

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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