Cannibal killer told: You will never go free
A DOUBLE killer who butchered his wife was locked up for life yesterday.
Glyn Dix hacked the body of his wife Hazel into 16 pieces in their kitchen, and planned to eat the remains Hannibal Lecter- style.
Police discovered that Dix, 51, had placed body parts in a tin in the oven.
He met his 54-year- old wife when she made a prison visit while he was serving a sentence for the murder of a housewife.
At Birmingham Crown Court yesterday, he was ordered to be detained indefinitely at highsecurity Ashworth Hospital on Merseyside.
Hazel’s daughter Rachel, 32, said: “I wish they could bring back hanging. But that would be too quick for him.” Mr Justice Butterfield told Dix, who pleaded guilty to murder: “You stabbed her to death and dismembered her body. It was brutal, horrific and abhorrent.
“You took the life of a woman who did much to help you and showed you much kindness. You have also deeply hurt the family, who welcomed you with open arms.”
The judge added: “Your risk has been described as extremely high. Your counsel has sensibly decided that I should not apply a set period and you will be detained on a whole life order.”
Prosecutor Jonathan Gosling said Dix told police that the couple were naked after making love at their home in Redditch, Worcestershire, and then rowed over which TV channel to watch.
A statement said: “Hazel had said ‘right that’s it’ and she got hold of a knife and I got hold of a knife and as we started facing each other, I stabbed her.
“She was going on and on and I felt under pressure. I felt my anger rise I said I had had enough of her.”
Dix had been released on licence three years earlier after serving a “life” sentence for the rape and murder of builder’s wife Pia Overbury, 34, in a Gloucestershire wood in 1979.
Hazel, a mother of six, met him when she visited a relative in jail. They married the year he was freed.