A 49-year-old husband dismembered his 46-year-old wife and dumped her remains in a country park ‘like garbage,’ a court heard.
Thomas McCann and Yvonne were married for 24 years.
Manchester Crown Court heard how Thomas strangled his wife in the bathroom of their Stockport home after she accidentally defrosted a bag of frozen chips.
The angry husband then cut her body up using a tree lopper and Stanley life before dumping her dismembered body in a nearby park.
He then sent messages to their children, pretending to be Yvonne.
Thomas later told police that he “killed my wife and disposed of her like garbage” after he “lost control and could not stop.”
Andrew Smith, prosecuting, said the couple had been together for 32 years and they shared four children.
In 2013, Mrs. McCann started to see another man and her relationship with her husband broke down.
“Seemingly the trigger was some used frozen chips,” Mr. Smith said. “During that argument it is now clear that the defendant attacked Yvonne, strangled her to death in the bathroom and thereafter he dismembered her body in the bath.”
Dog walkers found parts of her body in Reddish Vale Cpuntry Park, Stockport and immediately called the police.
They reportedly discovered two bags and four more in another area of the park.
Only 50 percent of her body was found.
Louise Blackwell QC, mitigating, said McCann had no history of violence and he hadn’t planned the murder. However, their argument over something small ‘blew up.’
In a victim impact statement from the couple’s children, Mrs. McCann’s daughter Rachel Lawson said: “We are all really struggling with this. We love our mum very much, we also love our dad.”
McCann said in a later: “I would like to stress how truly, truly sorry I am to my wife’s family and my three children for the pain and suffering I have put them through.
“I have to live with myself for my actions on top of the punishment I am going to receive.”
He continued: “I punish myself more and more as the days go past but this was my own doing.
“I ask that one day my three children may consider forgiving me for the pain and heartache I have put them through.
“If they don’t that’s something I will have to get used to. I would like to stress how deeply, deeply sorry I am.”
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