By Daily Mail Reporter UPDATED: 10:07 EST, 8 July 2011 A man who killed his girlfriend and beat her corpse so savagely her mother was not allowed to see her remains hung himself before he was due to face a court. Blake Ross, 36, a 6ft 3in tall former weight trainer, from Two Mile Ash, near Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, was found dead in his cell. He had been due to stand trial for the murder and mutilation of his partner, mother-of-one Kim Jeffery, also 36, after she ended their relationship. Killer: Blake Ross, left, committed suicide in his cell where he was waiting to stand trial for the brutal murder of partner Kim Jeffery, right
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Blake Ross killed Kim Jeffrey as her daughter, nine, slept upstairs
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Victim was so badly disfigured her family were not allowed to view body
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Brutality of attack emerges after he kills himself in prison
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