Holly Bramley

It could well pass off as a chapter from Chuck Palahniuk's 2005 crime and gore novel Haunted. But the tale of UK native Nicholas Metson, described as an "evil monster" by prosecutors, killing his wife Holly Bramley, is all fact.

In a heinous murder that has shocked the UK, a 28-year-old man stabbed his wife to death, chopped her body in over 200 pieces and stored them in his kitchen for a week before dumping them in a river with the help of a friend.

It could well pass off as a chapter from Chuck Palahniuk's 2005 crime and gore novel Haunted. But the tale of UK native Nicholas Metson, described as an "evil monster" by prosecutors, killing his wife Holly Bramley, is all fact.

In a heinous murder that has shocked the UK, a 28-year-old man stabbed his wife to death, chopped her body in over 200 pieces and stored them in his kitchen for a week before dumping them in a river with the help of a friend.