An abusive wife filmed the spot where she dumped her husband’s body after knifing him to death.
Maureen Rickards, 50, ‘viciously’ killed geologist Jeremy Rickards, 65, in a horrific stabbing attack last summer.
She temporarily kept his body in a cupboard in their bedroom before hiding it in a bag under some grass cuttings in her garden in Canterbury, Kent.
In a frightening 15-minute video she posted on her Rycks Synergy Esq YouTube channel, she was seen walking around barefoot in her garden wearing a nightgown.
Maureen points the lens at a pile of grass cuttings in between two traffic cones where she dumped her husband’s body and says: ‘That’s why they put these cones here, like danger.’
In the clip she thanks ‘Mother Earth’ and says how her £480 a month home isn’t cheap compared to the student housing she is surrounded by.
She then creepily says ‘my hubby is always travelling so I’m alone’ despite knowing she murdered him weeks earlier.
At times she breaks out into a chilling laugh, walks past a clothes dryer where a lonely pair of jogging bottoms dangles, and talks about a ‘strange tree’ and an ‘itchy’ plant.
Maureen was arrested in July after her husband’s decomposing body was found by police in the garden of the home.
The court heard Mr Rickards was the victim of domestic abuse at the hands of his wife in the lead-up to his murder, with his post mortem examination showing he had been strangled weeks before his death and that he was also recovering from recent rib fractures.
Their housemates also spoke of seeing Mr Rickards looking as though he had been ‘ten rounds’ in a boxing ring and saying he was ‘scared’ of his wife who was ‘annoyed’ with him.
