A mum has told how a psychic chillingly predicted her daughter would die a horrible death with her body 'in a mess' a year before she was bludgeoned to death by her boyfriend then chopped up and flushed down the toilet.
Sadistic killer Dean Lowe was jailed for at least 28 years after he beat Kirby Noden, 32, to death with a rock and a metal pole.
He cut up her body, put some of her remains in a wheelie bin and flushed others away.
Lowe then lived in their blood-soaked Cornish flat for months before confessing to his macabre crime in Facebook messages to his family, then claimed Kirby had run away to South Africa to police.
Months earlier Kirby's mum, Anita, had her palm read while on holiday.
“He looked at my palm and asked me who was the girl who had five children. I said that was Kirby, she had three children and lost two," said Anita.
“He said he saw prison bars and somebody behind them for a long time.
“He said ‘I’m sorry to tell you this but her body is in a mess.’”
“I thought the bars were for Dean, that he would get done for drugs. But I never thought he’d be put behind them for killing my girl.”
Exeter Crown Court heard how controlling Lowe, 33, prevented Kirby from contacting her family.
Miss Noden, who was last seen alive in January last year, lived with Lowe in a flat in North Street, Marazion.
Speaking about the day her precious daughter was murdered Anita said: "I’m plagued by thoughts of what happened that night. I hope the first blow with the rock killed her.
“The force of the blow smashed the stone. I saw the broken pieces in court. I think he hit her that hard that that big rock broke. Then he used a metal pole on her.
“He killed her in January and no one knew until May."
After he had finished disposing of Kirby's remains he waited four months before sending horrifying Facebook messages to his family members.
Anita, 65, said: “Dean’s cousin, Rebecca Tilford called me and asked if I had heard from Kirby and I knew from her voice that something was very wrong.
“She told me she was missing and asked if I had seen her but I knew straight away that she was gone."
The text messages Dean sent to Rebecca, 30, emerged during the trial.
His message read: “Can’t remember half of what I’ve done, I just know it’s bad... I’m so sorry... If you want to have a go at me maybe I’ll remember. Sorry cuz, I really am.”
Lowe did not reply to her messages. “That was it until May, when he changed his Facebook photo,” she said. “Realising he was back online, I sent a message.”
Lowe’s lengthy replies revealed the full, horrifying story of how he killed Kirby.
One read: “Facts are this: there was a body looking like Kirby on my floor was there for days not just an overnight dream was still there day after day.
“I cut it up and put it in the bin and flushed fat and guts down the toilet. The blood is still there now and the pool of matter is still stained on the floor.”
Lowe included photos, one of them showing a blood-spattered ceiling.
Anita said: “I asked Rebecca to please call the police but her mum had already done that.
“People told me ‘she’s just missing, she’ll come back,’ but I knew she wouldn’t because she wasn’t here anymore.
“When police called to his house that night he apparently said ‘I thought you’d have come before now with all the meat in the bins.’
“How he didn’t block the toilet flushing her down the toilet is beyond me.
“Police came down to me on the Friday night and took DNA from me and Kirby’s children.
“Kirby’s blood was all over the house in Cornwall.
“A police family liaison officer called us that night and told us that the amount of blood they found at Kirby’s house was either life-threatening or life-ending. ‘From what we can see it’s life-ending’, he said.
“I passed the phone to Kirby’s sister Vicky. I couldn’t listen to anymore. My heart just broke. I couldn’t stop crying.
“I was suicidal. All I wanted was my girl back. But I had to keep going for Kirby’s children and my friends kept me strong.
“When they said she was missing, I thought at first that they might at least find the body.
“The police were so kind. They dragged the sea looking for her and had divers out for days but they never found her. She had gone through the wheelie bins.
“I asked how no one noticed, I know the rubbish stinks anyway but a body left there for days must have really hummed.”
Anita and her family were put through "living hell" with Lowe not disclosing where he disposed of Kirby’s body and denying all knowledge in court.
Lowe added to their upset by insisting that Kirby was still alive.
“She was coming home. I think that’s why he did it", said Anita.
"He was very controlling and had banned her from contacting us. He blocked us on Facebook , controlled her phone and threatened her that it was either him or us – she couldn’t have both.
“I went to a medium after her death, he said that she was coming home. She was going to leave him.
“He said that she’s near water. Which is true, her house was right by the sea.
“To anyone in an abusive relationship I urge you to get out or you could end up like her – dead at 32.”
The doomed couple first met as babies when Anita was a close friend of Dean’s late father.
Anita said: “He used to call me sister. We were like that and he used to come around every night when we lived nearby.
“Kirby was a lovely, happy-go-lucky child. Everyone loved her.
“She had a great imagination and she was artistic and loving. She always had a big smile."
Kirby and Dean lost touch as they grew older but when Dean's father died Anita took her daughter along to his funeral and romance blossomed between the childhood friends.
Sitting in her home in Winsford, Cheshire, Anita points to a pretty box on the coffee table and says: “Now all that’s left of my beautiful girl is in this small box - just a few pieces of tat – cheap jewellery. No gold or silver, just some beads and rope she probably picked up in the charity shop.
“He was the love of her life and father of two of her children but he did not care about her at all.
“I wish I could have been there to save her."
Anita said that Lowe’s 28 year prison sentence has given her very little comfort and she believes that death is the only fitting retribution for what he did to her daughter.
“As far as I’m concerned he should have swung from the end of a rope, but then that would be too easy, not like how he made it for our girl.
"I hate him with a passion. We’re all absolutely devastated. She was so loved by her family and her friends."
During the trial, Dean denied killing Kirby and dismembering her body, but a jury at Exeter Crown Court found him guilty on May, 9, this year.
“Even the jury left the court crying when they heard about everything that happened to Kirby," recalls Anita.
“I was supposed to give evidence on the Wednesday but Dean refused to come out of his cell so I had to wait until the Friday.
“I was adamant that I wouldn’t lose it inside but when I walked out I broke down. I was asked when I last saw her and what we said when we last spoke but I couldn’t remember.
“Dean had stopped her seeing us years ago.
“He’s evil through and through.
“I have nothing to say to him now.
“I went to the backyard of the house our Kirby had lived in in Cornwall. Her niece came with me. We just clung to each other and cried. It was upsetting knowing what had gone on in that house.
“My daughter’s death has changed my view of humanity. I have no faith in anyone anymore.
“I break down in floods of tears every day. It’s exhausting emotionally but you just have to keep going.”
The family had no body to bury but they held a service in their local church, ringed by a graveyard just yards from where Anita now lives.
Dozens of people gathered to remember Kirby and let 30 red balloons into the sky for her.
Anita said: “We gave her a nice send-off at St John’s Church. There was no body but we released balloons in Kirby’s favourite colour red.
“Just as the service started a butterfly fluttered past me into the church. I think it was Kirby.
“I was too busy crying to see it but my friend caught it in a cup and I released it into the sky with the balloons after the service. A heron flew up past the balloons at the same time. I wonder if that was a sign from Kirby too.
“In our garden we have a bench with a brass plaque dedicated to her. I go and sit on it sometimes to feel close to her.
“And we have a little shrine, with statues, lights and flowers in the garden that I weed every day to be near her.
“A few weeks back, my dog suddenly clung to the corner where we have a large picture of Kirby and started shaking. They say a dog has a sixth sense.
“I think it was Kirby paying a visit. The dog is a new addition to the household so he had never seen her in life.
“So I feel like she’s still with us. It would be nice to think that she’s hanging around.
“If she died from cancer or was hit by a car it might be more understandable, we could have said goodbye to her – but not this. I just can’t get over it.”