Photos: Man who beheaded his partner, smashed her head and flushed it down the toilet is jailed for life

A jealous man who decapitated his long-term
partner and flushed the head down the toilet at
their east London flat has been sentenced to life
in prison and must serve a minimum of 21
years.
Dempsey Nibbs, 69, killed Judith Nibbs, his
partner of 30 years, after he became angry when
she admitted to having affairs.
The crane driver, from the Charles Estate in
Hoxton attacked Ms Nibbs with an iron bar in
April 2014, the Old Bailey heard. He told jurors
he only meant to "slap her around a bit" but she
died in a struggle while he was trying to cram a
metal bar in her mouth.
He said he could tell she was dead from the way
her eyes had "rolled over in her head", but the
court heard evidence from a doctor that she was
still alive at this pint.
Nibbs, who has prostate cancer, claimed he had
acted in self defence and that he thought Ms
Nibbs was a "snake" - but jurors heard he had
shown no sign of mental illness.
During the trial, Crispin Aylet QC said:
"In the end you chopped her head off and
smashed it up and flushed it down the
lavatory because she betrayed you"
"Bearing in mind you spent a large
amount of your life with this woman, the
mother of your two childre, with whom
you spent many happy years, how do you
feel?" he asked.
Mr Nibbs replied:
"I feel terrible. Still, she let me down. She
betrayed me. When she died that was me
finished. Me, myself I'm dead because I
did not see a way out for me. I cut off
her head because I' m finished, I 'm
dead.. She was going to leave me
anyway, so what can I say."
The Recorder of London Nicholas Hilliard QC
told him:
"I'm sure you don't regret your wife's
death save for its effect on your own
comfort and well-being."
Defence lawyer Ian Henderson QC told the court
that Nibbs acknowledged that his ill health
meant he would die in jail.
Nibbs attacked the mother of his two children
after she had taunted him that she had had
affairs. After knocking her unconscious with the
iron bar, he then cut off her head before
attacking it with a mallet.
He then wrote a note to his son and called 999
to say two bodies would be found at the
property. When police arrived, Nibbs was
attempting to stab himself. Officers broke the
door down before grappling with Nibbs who was
armed with a shotgun and knife.
Jurors heard that their relationship soured when
he suspected Ms Nibbs of having affairs. Their
son said that since his mother no longer had to
care for his younger sister, Nibbs felt she had
changed and was not the "housewife" she used
to be.
During a row Ms Nibbs admitted seeing other
men, taunting her partner by saying:
"I have had sex eight times."
The next day she inadvertently predicted her
own killing as she left work with the words:
"If I'm not in Friday, I might be dead."
But Judge Hilliard rejected Nibbs's claim he only
initially "tapped" his wife on the head with a
metal bar to get her attention.
Cutting her head off was an act of "grotesque
savagery" in revenge for her perceived
"treachery", Judge Hilliard added.