New details of grandmother's horrific killing at her home are revealed in podcast

A chilling 999 call triggered one of the most shocking cases in Welsh crime history. Now, a new documentary has unveiled details about the killing of 65-year-old great-grandmother June Fox-Roberts - who was beheaded and butchered by a deranged killer on November 21, 2021. Michael Moran reports

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JUNE’S daughter made the grisly discovery first. Abigail Sheppard called 999 and told the operator: “I’ve just come home and I found my mother’s body in the dining room. She's wrapped in plastic and there's blood going from the front door... it looks like someone started trying to clear it up.”

Officers were instantly dispatched to the family residence in Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf. What confronted the arriving police was a nightmarish sight.

Detective Superintendent Darren George remembered: “The head, legs and arms were basically missing.”

One shocked officer in the incident room exclaimed: “There's a question you never thought you'd ask as a police officer... where are the limbs?”

Abigail says that she was completely traumatised by what she saw on that day.

“I’ll never get those images out of my head,” she revealed to the True Lives podcast.

“That's something that I’ve got to live with now for the rest of my life.”

The immediate concern, DS George explained, was finding the remainder of June’s remains.

He stated: “I know how important it was to recover the body parts for the dignity and respect of June and her family.

“I didn’t want another member of the public finding them. Once they see it, they can’t un-see it. And that was a real, real worry of mine.”

While cadaver dogs were prepared to search the surrounding wasteland, forensics specialist Jayne Roughley guided her team into the blood-drenched property.

Blood splatter and fragments of human tissue were scattered throughout the stairway. “It’s not something you can ever prepare yourself for,” she said.