'Just Like Cutting Beef, Except for the Bleeding'

What a sick bastard.

The boyfriend of the 17-year-old British girl whose body was found in a suitcase has reportedly told a Brazilian newspaper that chopping up the teenager was 'just like cutting beef.'

Mohammed Dali Carvalho dos Santos is also quoted as saying that he took photographs of Cara Marie Burke's dismembered corpse to send to a Brazilian friend living in the UK.

The 20-year-old gave an interview with local newspaper Hoje Noticia after being charged with 17-year-old Cara's murder.

The newspaper asked: 'How did you feel while you were mutilating her?' Dos Santos allegedly replied:

'Nothing, just like cutting beef, except for the bleeding.'

Asked why he took photographs of himself dismembering the body, he is quoted as saying: 'I took them to send to a Brazilian friend in England, who she (Cara) had stolen money from. He said he was going to kill her.

'I was going to send them to him by email to show that although he didn't have the courage to do it, someone here did.'

The 20-year-old also said he made a mistake by leaving the suitcase containing Cara's torso by a river bank.

He said: "I made a mistake, the suitcase was supposed to fall in the river. If it had fallen in the river nobody would have found it, as they haven't found the head and the other parts."

Cara Marie Burke's torso was found in a suitcase dumped on a riverbank on Monday, but her head, arms and legs were missing after being thrown into the water.

Reader Bern noted this item.

"He took various photos of the chopped-up body with his cellphone's camera, including photos like those of the Taliban."

Lovely.