A notorious killer dubbed the 'Costa Cannibal' - who killed and claimed he ate parts of his girlfriend after fleeing to Spain following a daring escape from police - has been locked-up for an extra eight years and eight months.
Ex-fugitive Paul Durant, 50, (pictured) is serving a 12-year manslaughter sentence after admitting killing mum-of-two Karen Durrell, 41, in Calpe near Benidorm in 2004.
The East Londoner pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court to attempting to rob a security guard of a cashbox on November 26, 2003, robbing another guard of a cashbox on December 1 and escaping from the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel on December 2.
He denied two further charges of robbing guards of cashboxes on October 28 and November 25 and those allegations will lie on the file.
Durant was receiving medical treatment for a hand injury sustained during his arrest when he leapt thirty feet from a balcony, dodging police guarding him and made his way to Spain.
There he met Karen (pictured) of Emsworth Road, Woodford Bridge, Essex, who moved abroad to start a new life in January, 2004, but vanished within weeks.
She was battered over the head with a mallet after rowing with Durant over a child abuse video. Her body has never been found.
Police found a knife with traces of flesh, blood in the bath and a blood stained suitcase at her flat.
Durant was arrested in March, 2004 and told a UK tabloid: "I believed God had delivered her to me and I was getting messages from the telly.
"After I killed her, I cut her body into small parts, eating what parts of her I found eatable. I finally disposed of what was left in small rubbish bags."
The Spanish authorities recently repatriated Durant to this country to serve out his sentence and he was due for release in February 2013, but will now have to finish this term before he is freed.
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