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Gardener planting potatoes finds a human skull… but wife reassures him: ‘Don’t worry – it’s my first husband’ after she axed him to death 20 years ago in Russia

Man found skull while gardening at home in Luzino, in Siberia’s Omsk region
Wife told him ‘don’t worry – it’s my first husband’ and told him to rebury remains
She confessed to axing her husband to death after he beat her 20 years ago
New husband ignored her instructions and revealed his discovery to police

A gardener found a skull while planting potatoes – only for his wife to reveal it was the remains of her first husband who she had axed to death and buried 20 years ago.

The 60-year-old woman calmly explained ‘don’t worry – it’s my first husband’ after the grim discovery in the garden of her home in Luzino, a village in the Omsk region of Siberia.

She confessed to the killing before telling her new partner to ‘bury the remains again, forget about it, and we won’t tell the police.’

A gardener found a skull while planting potatoes - only for his wife to reveal it was the remains of her first husband who she had axed to death and buried 20 years ago

The 60-year-old woman calmly explained 'don't worry - it's my first husband' after the grim discovery in the garden of her home in Luzino, a village in the Omsk region of Siberia

However, he ignored the instructions and told officers.

The woman had confessed to him that 21 years ago she had struck her spouse with an axe during a quarrel after ‘he came home drunk and beat me’ at her home.

She dismembered the man, aged 52, and buried him in her potato patch. Then she pretended that he had gone to work and never come home.

The woman’s new husband – who also found other bones – ignored her demands and went to police to report the crime.

The unnamed woman confessed to killing her husband, said the Russian Investigative Committee, which probes serious crimes.