Woman, 71, “cooked husband’s remains”

A SEPTUAGENARIAN arrested last month on suspicion of murdering her husband had cooked parts of his body, a source close to the case has said.

The 71-year-old woman was taken into custody early on May 22 after a neighbour in Longwy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, had alerted police, AFP has reported.

Her clothing was covered in her husband’s blood and other remains.

Investigators found that the 80-year-old victim, a retired steelworker, had been killed with a pestle and mortar before being dismembered.

His heart, nose and genitals had been placed in a saucepan and cooked, a source familiar with the case told AFP.

The lawyer for the 71-year-old mother-of-10 said that her client suffered a “delusional disorder”.

The woman has been placed in the psychiatric unit of the penitentiary centre in Nancy Maxéville, pending psychiatric reports which will determine whether it is accessible or not a criminal sanction.