This is the chilling moment an abusive wife filmed the spot where she dumped her husband's body after knifing him to death. 

Maureen Rickards, 50, 'viciously' killed geologist Jeremy Rickards, 65, in a frenzied stabbing attack last summer.

She temporarily kept his body in a cupboard in their bedroom before hiding it in a bag under some grass cuttings in her garden in Canterbury, Kent. 

During a rambling and bizarre 15 minute video posted on her Rycks Synergy Esq YouTube channel she walks around barefoot in her garden wearing a nightgown.

Rickards points the lens at a pile of grass cuttings in between two traffic cones where she dumped her husband's body and says: 'That's why they put these cones here, like danger.'

In the clip she thanks 'Mother Earth' and says how her £480 a month home isn't cheap compared to the student housing she is surrounded by.

She then creepily says 'my hubby is always travelling so I'm alone' despite knowing she murdered him weeks earlier. 

At times she breaks out into a chilling laugh, walks past a clothes dryer where a lonely pair of jogging bottoms dangles, and talks about a 'strange tree' and an 'itchy' plant. 

Rickards was arrested in July after her husband's decomposing body was found by police in the garden of the home. 

Jurors yesterday afternoon returned a unanimous guilty verdict on the murder charge, after deliberating for around five hours.

During her two-week murder trial, Canterbury Crown Court heard Rickards wrapped her husband's dead body in bin bags, transferred it into a holdall and carried the bag down two flights of stairs to the bottom of their overgrown back garden before burying him.

The court heard Mr Rickards was the victim of domestic abuse at the hands of his wife in the lead-up to his murder, with his post mortem examination showing he had been strangled weeks before his death and that he was also recovering from recent rib fractures.

Rickard's housemates also spoke of seeing Mr Rickards looking as though he had been 'ten rounds' in a boxing ring and saying he was 'scared' of his wife who was 'annoyed' with him.

Shocking videos played to the court showed Rickards berating her bruised and frail husband, whilst others showed Mr Rickards drinking in a Wetherspoon pub in Canterbury with evident marks on his face.

Mr Rickards was reported missing by his family at the beginning of June - with his last sighting said to have been on June 7.

His body was only discovered on July 11, after a Kent Police officer investigating his disappearance recognised a distinctive 'sickly smell' in the garden of Rickards' home.

In the weeks following Mr Rickards' disappearance, Rickards used his bank cards for shopping before messaging their daughter, Chima Rickards, using her dead husband's phone to say that her father had arrived in Saudi Arabia, where he was working.

Their daughter was concerned about the style of messages and asked if her mother had taken over her father's phone.

When Rickards later messaged her daughter to say that her father had taken his own life in Saudi Arabia, Chima Rickards reported her father to the police as missing.

Rickards was initially arrested for fraud on July 11 and police carried out a search of the property, finding Jeremy Rickards' body in the garden.

She was then arrested on suspicion of murder and a homicide investigation was launched. 

Following her arrest, the court heard Rickards kept up her act, asking, 'What body?' and incredulously repeating, 'Murder? Murder?' when told she was being arrested on suspicion of her husband's murder.

In a statement following the verdict, James Fisher, a Senior Crown Prosecutor for CPS South East, said Rickards had subjected her husband to 'unimaginable pain and suffering'.

He said: 'As we built the case against Maureen Rickards, we were able to unpick her web of lies, using forensic evidence and her actions before and after the murder, to paint the picture of a callous abuser, who subjected Jeremy to unimaginable pain and suffering.

'She subjected her partner to a campaign of sustained abuse, before viciously murdering him.

'The attacks on Jeremy became more severe in the run-up to his murder, leaving him frail, battered and bruised, with everyone who came into contact with him concerned for his wellbeing.

'Maureen lied about the cruelty and violence she inflicted on Jeremy and was quick to dismiss any concerns, even claiming the injuries had come from a car accident.

'Maureen has never taken responsibility for her actions nor shown any remorse for murdering Jeremy.

'He was subjected to an appalling attack, after which Maureen set about trying to hide the evidence, even lying to their family that he had killed himself in Saudi Arabia, while all the time his body lay hidden in their garden.

'Despite her efforts to disguise what she had done; Maureen has today been brought to justice for her husband's brutal murder.

'Our thoughts remain with Jeremy's family and friends at this difficult time.'

Rickards' trial also heard evidence from experts in the forensic science of entomology - analysing the presence of insects and their life cycle - to help assist with when Mr Rickard's died.

This helped to narrow down the period of Jeremy's death to between June 8 and 26 and confirmed that his body was originally put in a cupboard in Rickard's bedroom, before being hidden in the garden, the CPS said.

Pools of blood found inside the cupboard and on the floor beneath it were consistent with the victim lying on it.

Stains also appeared on the ceiling of the flat below, with the tenant having returned and taken a photo of the dark stains.

Attempts had been made to remove blood from the upper side of the carpet in Rickards' bedroom after she purchased cleaning products on June 20, using her husband's bank card.

Maureen asked a handyman to cut the grass and put the cuttings under the bushes, which helped to further cover the holdall.

Maureen's DNA was found on one of the bin bags that her husband's body was wrapped in, proving she'd handled it at some point.

She also recorded herself being cruel and aggressive to Jeremy and striking him, on one occasion saying she will do him harm or kill him.

Rickards will be sentenced next month at Canterbury Crown Court.