{"id":204956,"date":"2022-07-21T10:31:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T09:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=204956"},"modified":"2022-07-21T10:31:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T09:31:53","slug":"photos-89-year-old-farmer-who-killed-his-wife-and-hid-her-body-for-37-years-has-been-jailed-for-18-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/07\/21\/photos-89-year-old-farmer-who-killed-his-wife-and-hid-her-body-for-37-years-has-been-jailed-for-18-years\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: 89-year-old farmer who killed his wife and hid her body for 37 years has been jailed for 18 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 89-year-old man identified as David Venables who murdered his wife and hid her body for 37 years has been sentenced to 18 years in jail.<\/p>\n<p>It was learnt that the pig farmer killed his spouse Brenda in May 1982 and then dumped her body in the underground septic tank at their farm in Kempsey, Worcestershire.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Venables\u2019s skull and other bones were discovered during work to empty the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/07\/05\/why-we-kept-77-members-underground-ondo-church-pastor-reveals\/\">underground<\/a> chamber on July 12, 2019, six years after Venables had sold the property for more than \u00a3460,000 to his nephew.<\/p>\n<p>During his trial, Worcester Crown Court heard how the retired farmer killed his wife because he wanted her &#8220;out of the way&#8221; after he rekindled an affair with another woman.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-204959 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/07\/adewale_chocomilo\/2022\/07\/21\/62d908661c416.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/07\/adewale_chocomilo\/2022\/07\/21\/62d908661c416.jpg 615w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/07\/adewale_chocomilo\/2022\/07\/21\/62d908661c416-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to a local newspaper at the time, he suggested Brenda might have taken her own life as she was suffering from depression after a recent bout of flu.<\/p>\n<p>The cold\u00a0killer stuck to this story even after he was arrested for Brenda&#8217;s murder. He told detectives his wife had been depressed and said she could have committed suicide by drowning herself in the sewage pit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-204957 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/07\/adewale_chocomilo\/2022\/07\/21\/62d9084b184fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/07\/adewale_chocomilo\/2022\/07\/21\/62d9084b184fb.jpg 615w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/07\/adewale_chocomilo\/2022\/07\/21\/62d9084b184fb-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Venables also said he believed the notorious killer Fred West may have murdered Brenda. However, his web of lies fell apart during a trial at Worcester Crown Court.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers representing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/05\/20\/osun-pensioners-berate-gov-oyetola-over-refusal-to-pay-entitlements\/\">pensioner<\/a>, who denied murder, said West had links to the village of Kempsey, where Brenda disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>They also claimed she may have left her marital home at Quaking House Farm and &#8220;either killed herself or met with or encountered someone who wished her harm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, the jury did not believe Venables and he was found guilty of murder by a 10-2 majority verdict last week.<\/p>\n<p>Passing sentence on Venables, Judge Tipples said he had taken advantage of his wife&#8217;s depression to create a &#8220;carefully thought-out story&#8221; that she had left home in the middle of the night, apparently to take her own life.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-204958 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/07\/adewale_chocomilo\/2022\/07\/21\/62d9088845b54.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/07\/adewale_chocomilo\/2022\/07\/21\/62d9088845b54.jpg 615w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/07\/adewale_chocomilo\/2022\/07\/21\/62d9088845b54-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/07\/adewale_chocomilo\/2022\/07\/21\/62d9088845b54-86x64.jpg 86w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She said;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You killed Brenda Venables in her own home, where she was recuperating with an injured leg and suffering from depression. You were Brenda&#8217;s husband and she should have been able to trust you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your complete lack of respect for Brenda is obvious from your decision to dispose of her body in the septic tank.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fact that is what you did with her body is disgusting and repulsive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>David Venables, 89, will have to reach the age of 107 before he can even apply for parole after he killed Brenda Venables in 1982.<\/p>\n<p>He showed no emotion in the dock during trial, or when he was found guilty by a 10-2 majority verdict last week.<\/p>\n<p>But he was heard shouting \u2018no\u2019 repeatedly after he was taken towards the cells following sentencing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 89-year-old man identified as David Venables who murdered his wife and hid her body for 37 years has been sentenced to 18 years in jail. 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