Estranged husband ‘cut off wife’s head, flushed it down toilet’

An estranged husband decapitated his wife of 30 years, smashed up her head and flushed it down the toilet in an act of “pure hatred”, a court heard.

Crane driver Dempsey Nibbs, 69, then said he beheaded the mother of his two children, Judith Nibbs, 60, because he thought she was a “snake”.

However, the Old Bailey murder trial heard Nibbs had shown no signs of mental illness in the wake of the horrifying killing at the couple’s home in Hoxton, east London, in April 2014.