Monster who beheaded Scots girlfriend fantasised about violence aged just 14 in warped online posts
The posts were on a since-deleted Facebook account
KILLER'S CHILLING PAST Monster who beheaded Scots girlfriend fantasised about violence aged just 14 in warped online posts
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A MONSTER who murdered his girlfriend then cut off her head had fantasised about violence from the age of 14, we can reveal.
Ewan Methven, 27, was harbouring horrific thoughts from as far back as a decade before he throttled, stabbed then decapitated Phoenix Spencer-Horn, 21.
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Evil monster Ewen Methven murdered and beheaded his girlfriend Phoenix Spencer-Horn
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Twisted Methven pled guilty to the barbaric killing this week
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He was branded "the personification of evil" by his own lawyer
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Methven's chilling social media post showed he fantasised about violence
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In chilling Facebook posts from his school days, the warped postman wrote: 'You've always got that one person you choke to smash f**k out of.'
Other alarming remarks, uncovered from 2013 to 2014, read: 'It's kill or be killed' and 'I always get all tingly when angry and it makes me agitated'.
The disturbing posts emerged after the fiend this week admitted killing and butchering Phoenix at their flat in East Kilbride.
His now-deleted account listed his occupation as 'Local Drug Dealer & Occasional Pornstar'.
Referring to an unknown female, Methven told how he wanted to 'kick her big horrible f****** teeth oot' in a vile post dating back to December 2015.
And he raged: 'F*** peace everybody's gony die.'
In a reply to a friend, he claims: 'I wantae kill the f*** out of you' while in another he hails hard drugs as 'the bomb'.
Sources close to the brute described him as 'popular' in his hometown but with a mean streak and a 'dead' stare.
The pal said: 'At first glance, Ewan seemed like quite a quiet guy. He was quite pan-faced most of the time but there was always an edge to him.
'He was a bit of a screwball and could be a horrible b****** at times.
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"He always looked dead behind the eyes — he deserves what's coming to him.'
We told how Methven killed his partner of two years Phoenix then severed her head and tried to chop up her corpse while on a cocaine and online porn binge last November.
The High Court in Glasgow heard how the hotel and cafe worker was knifed 20 times — including ten wounds to her face, seven to her chest and three to her buttocks.
Cops found her naked, mutilated body with her head placed upright under her left arm.
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Methven's chilling and violent Facebook posts
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The sadistic murderer went on a drugs and porn binge after killing his girlfriend
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He will be sentenced next month
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An attempt had also been made to hack off her torso, right wrist and ankle.
Afterwards Methven accessed porn sites 170 times and messaged her mum Alison Spencer, pretending she was still alive, texting: 'Hey sorry I've just woken up xxx' and 'all good'.
The sicko kept his head down in the dock on Tuesday as his defence lawyer branded him as 'the personification of evil'.
Tony Graham KC added: 'He understands the bereaved will seek an explanation, but he cannot provide an explanation.'
Lord Matthews continued his remand in custody. The monster will be sentenced on July 14.
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