Jealous husband who decapitated wife and flushed head down the toilet facing life sentence

A jealous husband is facing life behind bars for decapitating his wife and flushing her head down the toilet.

Dempsey Nibbs, 69, became angry when Judith Nibbs, 60, taunted him as their relationship fell apart. She said she had been seeing other men.

On the evening of April 10 2014, Nibbs attacked the mother of his two children at their flat in Hoxton, east London.

He knocked her out with an iron bar before cutting her head off and disposing of the pieces in the lavatory.

Afterwards, the crane driver wrote a note to his 30-year-old son Kirk and called 999 to say police would find two bodies at the property.

A police officer broke down the door when he saw Mrs Nibbs' headless body through the letterbox and grappled a shotgun and knife from Nibbs as he attempted to stab himself in the bathroom.

Afterwards, Nibbs, said he killed his wife because he thought she was a "snake" but jurors heard he had shown no signs of mental illness.

Prosecutor Crispin Aylett QC told a jury at the Old Bailey that the couple's relationship soured in the spring of 2014 as Nibbs suspected his wife 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.

Nibbs, of the Charles Estate in Hoxton, told jurors he had not meant to kill his partner when he went to confront her over money taken from their bank account which he took as proof of her infidelity.

Sentencing of Nibbs, who showed no emotion as the verdict was delivered, was adjourned to a date to be fixed.