Arminda met Perry while he was on holiday in the Philippines in 1984 and the pair moved back to North Wales to start a new life with him.

Perry, then 52, had travelled to the Far East having just gone through a rather nasty divorce back home.

Having met Arminda in a bar he spent every day and every night with the attractive 20-year-old, he was smitten and had every reason to believe Arminda was fond of him too.

When the time drew near for him to fly home, Arminda told Perry she didn’t want him to leave.

He suggested they marry and settle in Wales, Arminda agreed and for a while the marriage was a success.

But gradually Perry became annoyed when other men showed an interest in his young bride.

He soon realised Arminda had just married him to escape poverty in the Philippines.

She sought the company of other men and was occasionally away for several days.

In February 1991, a neighbour reported Arminda missing.

She hadn’t seen her for two weeks, which was most unusual.

Police officers called on Perry to verify Arminda was missing finding it unusual he had not notified authorities himself.

Perry told officers he hadn’t reported his wife missing because he thought she had gone off with a man, as she had in the past.

He added he had begun divorce proceedings and would live alone with his cat, Katie.

As a matter of routine, officers asked Perry to look around the house in the hope of finding something which would give them a clue as to her whereabouts.

In the kitchen the officers detected a strange smell, a bloody knife on the table and bloodstains on the floor.

As they considered what they could see the cat scurried across the room, stopping beside two plastic bags containing a quantity of chopped meat.

An officer noticed a bloodstained hacksaw and screwdriver near the sink. Beside the tools was a medical encyclopedia, open at a page featuring the human skeleton.

The officers alerted detectives and during a more detailed search found two large wine fermenting bins in the garage which contained meat. Some of it had been burned, other pieces cooked, and still other portions were raw. The bin also contained human organs.

Perry admitted he had killed but wife but insisted he hadn’t meant to.

A further search found body parts in the boot of his car. In studying the body, Home Office pathologist Dr Donald Wayte found certain portions were missing and concluded Perry fed pieces of his wife to the cat.

Dr Wayte reconstructed most of Arminda’s head and although they were not able to establish a cause of death, they were able to ascertain that she had not been strangled.

Bone fragments indicated she had received a vicious blow to the back of her head.

Perry had also lied about killing his wife in the living room. The physical evidence proved she had been killed in the bath.

During the investigation detectives located a friend of Perry’s who was a butcher.

This man told police Perry had inquired as to how he went about cutting up a carcass. He also asked about the tools required.

In November 1991, Perry stood trial for murder. The prosecution produced all the damaging evidence and the best Perry’s barrister could plead on his behalf was a lack of intent.

The jury found Perry guilty and he was sentenced to life imprisonment.