Evil killer who beheaded girlfriend Phoenix Spencer Horn & tried to dismember her body at Scots flat jailed for 23 years
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A MONSTER who butchered his girlfriend before severing her head has been caged for more than 20 years.
Ewan Methven, 27, brutally killed his girlfriend Phoenix Spencer-Horn, at a flat in East Kilbride last November.
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He has been handed a 23-year sentence for the murder.
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