The brother of a woman butchered by her postman husband today revealed how he introduced the couple.

John Alcorn, of Horsham, says he was "destroyed" by the killing of mother-of-two June Frisby, which shocked the nation.

Mrs Frisby's husband struck her over the head with a claw hammer, then dismembered her body and placed her head, hands and feet in the cooker.

He scattered her other remains across the South East, throwing some parts over the White Cliffs of Dover and others in council tips.

Frisby told family and friends that June had left him after a row, taking her passport and purse.

But a year after her disappearance in 1999, a man out walking his dog on a golf course in Kent found her skull. It had been dumped after being cooked at gas mark eight.

Frisby, 41, was jailed for eight years at the Old Bailey earlier this month after he was cleared of murder but convicted of manslaughter through diminished responsibility.

Mr Alcorn, who has not spoken about the tragedy until now, says he feels guilty because it was he who introduced his sister to Frisby when she was "searching for the ideal husband".

The two men were best friends at the time.

Mr Alcorn said: "Roger and I both started working for the Royal Mail in London at the same time as telegram boys.

"We were like brothers. June was staying at my house and was on her own a lot of the time and asked me if I had any mates she could spend the evening with.

"I suggested Roger because he lived at home with his Mum and was single. I wish they had never been introduced and then this might not have happened. I do feel responsible for bringing them together."

Mr Alcorn, also 41, revealed that he had smelt his sister's head being cooked when he went to see Frisby after June had gone missing.

He said: "I know now that when I was going round there, June's body was chopped up in plastic bags in the bedroom.

"On one occasion I visited and there was a really funny, sickly smell in the house. I asked Roger if he had been cooking something, not realising it was my sister's head in the oven."

Mr Alcorn said he was horrified by Frisby's sentence.

Fighting back tears, he said: "He should have got life.

"She did not deserve to die the way she did. She loved her children and what he did to her was inhuman.

"I am absolutely disgusted by the eight-year sentence. He will probably be out in five years and the thought of that makes my blood run cold."

Mr Alcorn, a Royal Mail driver, moved to Horsham from Woolwich, south-east London, where he had lived streets away from his sister.

The couple were married for six-and-a-half years and lived in a terraced house. June suffered from depression and was prone to bouts of violence.

Mr Alcorn said: "Roger was always so quiet and docile. It is hard to believe that he did such a thing.

"I still have very mixed-up feelings towards Roger. When I saw him in court my heart pounded and I felt sick."