A murderer’s YouTube channel shows the moment she filmed where she hid her husband’s body while complaining he “is always travelling”.

Maureen Rickards hauntingly gave her followers a tour of her back garden in St Martin's Road, Canterbury, where Jeremy Rickards was buried under grass cuttings.

Rickards, 50, was convicted of murdering her husband of 27 years at Canterbury Crown Court today following a four-week trial.

The court heard she stabbed him to death shortly after June 7 last year then stored his body - dressed in his underwear - in a cupboard in the bedroom of her student accomodation.

She then wrapped her spouse in bin bags and placed him inside a nylon-weave holdall, before moving him from her loft room to the hiding place at the bottom of the overgrown garden.

Following today’s conviction KentOnline can reveal how, on June 27, Rickards uploaded a meandering fifteen minute clip, whereby she films the plot where her husband’s remains were hidden.

Posting from her Rycks Synergy Esq account, Rickards’ footage shows her walking barefoot to the bottom of the garden while giving thanks to “Mother Earth”.

“We’ve been through a lot,” she says, with the camera pointing at undergrowth.

After rambling about a “strange tree”, her nightgown and her rental payments, Rickards hones in on red cones next to the grass cuttings and says “put these cones here, like danger”.

Soon after, the lens re-focuses on the pile of grass under which, on July 11, the harrowing discovery of Mr Rickards’ decomposing body was made.

“Hubby is always travelling, so I am all alone,” Rickards says, then flippantly turns her attention to a clothes horse, and the freshly mowed lawn.

“Can you believe this cost twenty quid to mow this lawn?

“Such a sad story, a sad, sad story,” she told her six subscribers in the video which has amassed almost 300 views.

The alarming footage was published about eight days before the couple’s daughter Chima Rickards reported her father missing.

Maureen Rickards was arrested in July on suspicion of murdering Mr Rickards, 65, after police found his decomposing body stuffed in a bag and buried beneath the grass cuttings.

Having protested her innocence, Rickards told a jury this month she believed he had killed himself after not hearing from him.

Denying being responsible for Mr Rickards's death, she initially described him as "a gentleman, ally and confidante" who she loved very much.

But in an emotional outburst at the conclusion of a second day of answering questions from her legal team, Maureen Rickards also claimed her spouse had “set her up”.

After deliberating for just under six hours, jurors unanimously convicted Rickards of murder, meaning she will face a life sentence.

She will be sentenced in April at the same court, where a judge will determine the terms of her tariff.