Augsburg, Bavaria: A German husband, who killed and chopped his Filipino wife’s body into eight pieces because she stood in the way of his Thailand sex holiday, has been given a life sentence by the German courts.
Horst Koenig, 53, bludgeoned his 37-year-old Filipino wife Grace with a hammer when she was fast asleep in bed, reported Daily Mail.
He then sliced her body with a reciprocating saw and bundled the parts into a rented warehouse locker before jetting off to Thailand for an ‘exciting’ getaway, the report said.
He has been found guilty of the ‘particularly callous’ crime and sentenced to life in prison.
Koenig reportedly turned a ghostly white when District Judge Christoph Wiesner in Augsburg, Bavaria announced his verdict saying: ‘Such a motive is shocking for the court.’
He previously admitted he killed his wife of ten years and cleared out her bank account so he could enjoy a ‘booze and hookers’ holiday in the far east, said the news portal.
At Augsburg State Court, he reportedly confessed to plotting the murder and described in detail how he planned it and carried it out.
“I had check lists made, I worked it all out,” the chemical laboratory assistant told judges.
Grace, from the Philippines, had endured a marriage filled with his infidelity, said prosecutors.
He wanted to take a sex holiday but knew she would ‘have to be out of the way,’ they said in court.
On November 19, 2015 he leased a warehouse in Augsburg where he installed a computer to research how to kill a person with a single blow to the head.
When the computer was later found by police they found other searches for ‘how to prevent decay’ in a corpse and visits to anatomy sites, the report said.
On November 28, he reportedly bought a 5lb hammer and duct tape. Two days later, while she was asleep in bed, he whacked her on the temple and then slipped a plastic bag over her head, leading to her death by suffocation.
The following day, December 1, he bought industrial strength rubbish sacks and construction foam used to seal windows and door frames. Then he popped along to his local travel agents to buy the tickets for his Thailand trip, reported Daily Mail.
He reportedly packed his bags and then using a reciprocating saw sliced her body into eight parts and stuffed them into the plastic bags.
The day after, he went back to his secret computer in the warehouse and tapped into a search engine; ‘When does a body begin to smell?’
Having found the answer he returned home and smothered all the body parts with the construction foam and brought them to the warehouse.
Before he flew to Thailand on December 2 he typed e-mails to friends and family members of Grace saying she had left him to return to the Philippines “but that I will win her back,” reported Daily Mail.
