Police seized hundreds of DVDs and videos, some showing dismemberment, from the home of wannabe film producer Edward Simmons. The suspicion was that he’d produced a real-life murder – but there wasn’t even a body as evidence…

Thirty-four-year-old Simmons went ballistic when his girlfriend told him she had been raped by his best pal, Alex Brown. When he calmed down he began to plot a horrific revenge.

Revenge was a word that had a special meaning for Simmons. For he had a lurid obsession with horror films and snuff movies. He had written his own horror movie script and had amassed a collection of sick films showing bodies being dismembered…