Father-of-seven 'murdered his wife and burned her body on barbecue in back garden'

Benoit Piet sparked a massive police search after he reported his 34-year-old wife Adeline missing from the family home. The couple lived near the quiet port city of St Malo, Normandy

A husband accused of murdering and burying his wife, then digging up her body and cooking it on the family barbecue has gone on trial in France.
Father-of-seven Benoit Piet sparked a massive police search after he reported his wife, 34-year-old Adeline, missing five years ago.
Piet, now 42, initially claimed his wife had vanished from the family home near St Malo, Normandy, because she wanted a 'change of scene'.
But he was finally arrested two years later in 2008 after detectives failed to find any trace of her whereabouts.
He then admitted she had died 'accidentally' during a drunken domestic row and he had buried her in the garden.
He also confessed to exhuming her body, cutting it up and cooking it on the barbecue to destroy the remains.
Police said the woman asked her husband for a divorce shortly before she vanished.
Piet, who is charged with murder, faces life imprisonment if convicted.
The trial at the Ille-et-Villaine criminal court is expected to end on Friday.