A Russian doctor has confessed to murdering and dismembering a woman he dated when he discovered she had undergone sex change surgery.
Mikhail Tikhonov, 27, had been on a night out with Nina Surgutskaya, 25, in Kursk, before going back to her flat, he said.
The pair were having sex when he realised that she was 'transsexual' and had undergone surgery.
He immediately strangled her on her bed and then to hide the murder, dismembered her corpse, he told police interrogators.
Tikhonov was detained and questioned after Nina went missing and her mother called in police to investigate.
The police report into the incident said: 'Nina invited him to her flat. They continued to drink alcohol and began to have sex. He noticed his partner had been previously a man.
'She tried to continue the sex, but at that moment he grabbed her by neck and squeezed tight,' said the police source.
'He stopped only when she had no more signs of life.'
Tikhonov then 'decided to get rid of the body' and took the corpse to the bathroom where he 'cut out her internal organs', and chopped them into small pieces which he flushed down the toilet.
He then carved off the woman's flesh which he 'put into the oven', roasting them 'to evaporate excess liquid'.
The man denied he was a cannibal and told police he had flushed the cooked human meat down the toilet.
He then put the head and limbs into a suitcase and took them to his flat, according to the crime report.
Using a rasp, he sawed off limbs and ribs and threw them into rubbish bins. At this point, police came to detain him.
They found the macabre sight of the head still attached to the spine, which he had covered in salt 'to get rid of the smell'.
Tikhonov faces up to 20 years in jail if convicted of murder and mutilating the corpse.
Russian doctor murders, dismembers and cooks transgender woman
Medic Mikhail Tikhonov, 27, murdered Nina Surgutskaya, 25, (pictured) in Kursk, Russia after realising she was transsexual when he tried to have sex with her on a night out in the city.
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