By Halimah Olamide
A Switzerland model, Kristina Joksimovi, has been allegedly strangled and pureed to death by her husband.
The former Miss Switzerland finalist was dismembered with a jigsaw and garden shears.
Her body was in Binningen, near Basel in Switzerland in February in Binningen,
Her husband, who was only named by pseudonym Thomas in local media, 41, had an appeal for release from custody rejected today by the Federal Court in Lausanne after admitting to having killed his wife.
According to an ongoing investigation which was concluded yesterday, there were ‘concrete indications of mental illness’ underlying the case.
Kristina’s husband claimed he killed her in self-defence after she came at him with a knife.
He then reportedly said he dismembered the ex-model – with whom he has two children – ‘in a panic’.
Kristina’s body was found on the evening of February 13.
Investigators determined that Kristina had been strangled before she died.
The verdict states the suspect confessed to strangling his wife.
An autopsy concluded that the body was then dismembered in the laundry room with a jigsaw, knife and garden shears.
Body parts were then chopped up with a hand blender, ‘pureed’ and dissolved in a chemical solution, local outlet.
A medical-forensic report also ‘contradicts his description of self-defence’, according to Swiss outlet FM1 Today.
Thomas, who is a Swiss national, was reportedlyarrested a day after her remains were found by a ‘third party’.