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Mom's horrifying premonition before she was beheaded by her husband

Murder is frequently motivated by money or infidelity, and in this case, it was both.

Judith Nibbs, 60, hauntingly predicted her own death just days before she was beheaded by her husband over allegations of infidelity.


Judith, who worked delivering meals to the elderly in Kirkham, Lancashire, was brutally murdered by Dempsey Nibbs, 69, at their home in Hoxton, east London on April 10, 2014.

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Their marriage was on the rocks, with Dempsey growing increasingly suspicious that his wife was cheating on him with other men, reports Mirror UK.

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After going through her computer and finding videos, explicit Skype chats, and bank payment records linked to a Moroccan man named Khalid, Judith admitted: "I have had sex eight times" and a fight broke out.

The crane operator would grab Judith by the throat and threaten to kill her on April 7, and just one day later, as she was wrapping up work, she told her colleagues she feared the worst was yet to come.


"If I'm not in Friday, I might be dead," she said, eerily.

On the night of April 10, Dempsey attacked the mother of two of his children, knocking her unconscious with an iron bar before cutting off her head and trying to flush it down the toilet.

He then wrote a message to his 30-year-old son, Kirk, and dialed 911 to report two bodies at the address, with Dempsey planning to take his own life.


Judith Nibb had a feeling her husband was going to kill her

A police officer forced his way through the front door after seeing Judith's body through the letterbox, then struggled to take away a shotgun and knife from Dempsey as he attempted to hurt himself in the bathroom.

The disgraced husband admitted to killing his wife, calling her a "snake," though the jury heard there were no signs of mental illness.

And she was right -- two days later she was dead

Dempsey told the court that he hadn't meant to kill Judith but simply wanted to "slap her around a bit," saying it was only after she died that he decided to behead her because he felt "betrayed".

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The jury rejected his self-defense claim and found him guilty of murder, with sentencing delayed to a date still to be announced.

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