GIRL CHOPPED OFF HEAD AND ARMS OF SCOTTISH GRAN

Sandra, 74, had tried to help her and made her tea

GRISLY DEATH: Sandra Malcom A WOMAN has been jailed for life after brutally BEHEADING a Scottish grandmother.

Sandra Malcom, 74, was hacked to death at her home in Cape Town, South Africa, just as she was planning on returning home to her native Dundee.

Sheree Prince, 22, admitted carrying out the grisly slaying in April 2015.

In her plea statement, Prince described how she stabbed the pensioner before chopping off her arms and her head.

She said: “I started cutting her body to break it apart, I then cut her arms and tried to cut her legs but did not get it right.

“I then used an axe to cut her legs off.”

The killer said she had asked the victim for help after burning her foot and the kind, elderly lady invited her into her home to clean it up when Prince stabbed Mrs Malcom.

Judge Bruce Langa said the ‘horrifying’ way in which Prince killed Mrs Malcom showed that the murder was premeditated.

He said: “I accept the report by the forensic pathologist that the deceased was stabbed 24 times.

“This does not alter the accused’s guilt, but will be relevant for sentencing.

“The accused totally dismembered the deceased. She removed her head and all the main limbs – legs, arms and knees – completely.

“An attempt to cut both her thighs in half was unsuccessful. An attempt to cut the upper torso in half was also unsuccessful.

“There is no justification to kill the deceased unless she planned it. It was planned.”

Police arrested Prince in BRUTAL: Prince Citrusdal, 100 miles north of Cape Town, a few days after the grandmother’s death. Her fingerprints had been found at the crime scene.

Mrs Malcom’s grandson, Scott, was met by the bloodbath after clambering through her bathroom window to check up on the expat – the same route used by the killer.

The Scottish lady moved to South Africa 35 years before the savage attack with her daughters Susan and Alison.

Her devastated nephew, Colin Chalmers, of Monifieth, said: “I’ve never had to deal with anything like this. It’s shocking.”