Man jailed for life to kill Phoenix Spencer-Hern

A person has been jailed for life for the brutal killing of his girlfriend at his home in South Lanarkshire.

Ivan Methwen accepted a violent attack on 21-year-old Phoenix Spencer-Hern in a flat in East Kilbrid in November 2024.

The 27 -year -old tried to defeat the end of justice by covering the crime and pretending to his family that he is still alive.

Methwen was sentenced to a minimum of 23 years in jail in the High Court in Glasgow.

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While sentenced to Methvan, Judge Lord Mathews told him that he had rarely heard such things of sorrow in the statements of the victim influence “.

He said: “The grief and deep feeling of loss (family) feel and feel what you did.

“You were a reliable member of his family and you cheated on that belief and looted life in a brutal way.

“You are not satisfied with what you have done, you looted all the dignity of death and tried to destroy it and tried to destroy it in an attempt to defeat the heads of justice.

“The way you treated him after his death, he meant that his family did not have the comfort to say goodbye to him.”

In a letter to the judge, Methvan wrote: “I know how Phoenix was loved and how he fulfilled his family. I am not convinced that I have taken him from him.”

The prosecutors had told the court that Methvan suffered Ms. Spencer-Harn before separating his head and tried to remove her limbs and torso from her body.

Before that day, Methvan, who worked as a postman, complained to his girlfriend that her Wetress Shift made her “alone”.

He had exchanged messages at 21:37 with his mother Alison Spencer and said that he was having dinner.

The couple were together for two years and met the court at a family party.

Around midnight, a below neighbor heard “a loud noise and hasty padyatra”, which coincided with the activity recorded on a phone app, measuring methvan’s steps.

He attacked Ms. Spencer-Hern with three knives, stabbing 20 times. The deadly stab wound was for the chest. There were also for other people in that area as well as faces and buttocks.

Methvan tried to cover the murder for two days.

According to the prosecutors, she in the weekend in the weekend, scrolled the Ms. Spencer-Hern’s red course, scrolled through her phone and discovered 170 times for internet pornography, as well as several attempts to buy cocaine.

He repeatedly showed his victim’s mother in the texts that his daughter was “alive and well”.

During an earlier hearing, prosecutor Christopher McCena said: “The accused killed his girlfriend, Phoenix Spencer-Hern, shared in the top floor flat.

“Late on Saturday 16 November, he strangled her and stabbed her. He dialed 999 but not until 18 November.

“His severed and decapitated body was discovered only on 18 November.”

The court heard that Ms. Spencer-Hern had seen her mother a day before she was killed and the day she was killed, she was in good souls.

In 999 calls, Methvan claimed that the murder took place during a psychological episode inspired by cocaine, alcohol and steroids – which he claimed that he felt he felt that he was pointed.

He told that the operator was “trying to increase courage to call” and he “spoke completely”.

The court heard that a delivery driver said that the murder night at 20:00 pm “drunk or under influence” did not appear to be drunk “.

The police arrived at the flat and found that Ms. Spencer-Hern’s body was covered in the hallway next to a two-blooded knife. Another blood knife was found in the bathroom.

Methvan was described as “cool”.

On his arrest, he told the authorities: “I could not live with him. I tried to destroy him. I moved him from a bath and put him there.”

After putting in a police cell, he said: “I think it looks like my next 25 years.”

His KC Tony Graham said that Phoenix’s family and friends were likely to consider Methvan as a “personality of evil”.

After the death of Ms. Spencer-Hern, a money-raising page collected thousands of pounds to help the cost of the funeral.

Her family donated a lot to the aid of women for the charity.

Its Glasgow branch thanked the family, stating that cash would be used to protect others and its legacy would continue.

Charity posted on social media said, “His name, Phoenix, now more than loss. It stands for action. For change. To refuse to finish his story in silence,” Charity posted on social media.

“This is what means getting up from ash. To take this devastating crime and its use to protect others.

“Phoenix must still be here. But his legacy is one who is raising others, and it matters. Changing pain in pain. Refusing to forget his name.”