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Katherine Knight, who murdered, skinned and then cooked her de facto husband, is the only Australian woman serving a "for the term of her natural life" prison sentence. She is currently appealing against the severity of her sentence, her barrister arguing that "the killing did not fall into the worst category of cases." Say what? She stabbed the poor guy 37 times and then added a few macabre flourishes:

Knight worked as a slicer and packer at Aberdeen Abattoir and her lover had been carefully skinned and his skin hung on a meat hook in a doorway at the house.

His decapitated head was found in a pot on the stove. The table had been laid for dinner with name cards for Mr Price's three children and parts of his buttocks cooked and served up with vegetables and gravy on dinner plates.

Maybe if she had tied him up and run him dick first through the abattoir's industrial grinder...