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Evil killer butchered girlfriend before severing head & trying to dismember her at Scots flat

Evil killer butchered girlfriend before severing head & trying to dismember her at Scots flat

The Sun6 hours ago

A MONSTER has admitted slaughtering his girlfriend before severing her head and trying to dismember her body.
Evil Ewan Methven, 27, subjected petite Phoenix Spencer-Horn, 21, to the explosion of gruesome violence at a flat in East Kilbride, Lanarkshire.
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He also pretended to her mum Alison Spencer that the popular cafe and hotel worker, known as Phe, was still alive after the horrific attack in a bid to dodge justice.
Methven appeared in the dock at the High Court in Glasgow today where he tendered a plea of guilty to murder and attempting to defeat the ends of justice.
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He admitted throttling Phoenix, from nearby Strathaven,and repeatedly striking her on the head and body with knives or similar instruments.
He also admitted a charge that he did 'sever the head and attempt to remove the limbs and torso from the body of Phoenix Spencer-Horn with a knife or similar instrument.'
He also did 'repeatedly pretend in telephone messages to her mother, Alison Spencer, that Phoenix Spencer-Horn was alive and well, the truth being as you well knew that she was dead.'
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