A HUSBAND who murdered his wife and used her savings to travel the world says it would make more sense to put him in a "chemical coma" than keep him in jail.
Jamie Starbuck, pictured, killed his wife Debbie, dismembered her body and burnt it in a bin in his back garden in Desford Close, Basford.
He then dumped her remains in woodland and set off on his travels across Europe, Asia and Central America using £70,000 of her money. The remains have never been found.
Starbuck was jailed for a minimum of 30 years at Nottingham Crown Court in May after admitting the murder and is now in Nottingham Prison.
In a letter to prisoners' newspaper Inside Time, he complained about the boredom of life inside.
He wrote: "Aside from getting into a yearly fight at school with the same boy, I've only done one violent act and that got me 30 years in prison."
He added: "It costs the government a small fortune to keep me inside these four very tall walls, reading, watching TV and performing menial work for weekly pay that would shame a banana republic.
"So I ask: 'what is the point? Where is the driving purpose to get me out of bed in the morning?'"
In an attempt to cover his tracks the 36-year-old cleaner pretended his murdered wife was travelling with him, sending e-mails on her behalf to his her friends and family.
But they eventually became suspicious and alerted police.
Starbuck was arrested at London's Heathrow Airport as he returned from Peru on January 19.
In his letter, he added: "I see Dignitas on the news and can't help thinking it makes more sense than sitting here writing letters for the next 11,000 days. Put me in a chemical coma – wouldn't that be cheaper?"
He ends with: "What's the point?"
Starbuck killed Debbie, 44, a self-employed proof-reader, nine months after they met online. She was last seen alive six days after their wedding on April 27, 2010.
Starbuck also took to writing while on the run, blogging about his experiences.
A family statement made after the case by one of Debbie's older sisters, Beth Jones, read: "Everything that we have been told about what happened to Deb leads us to a place of unimaginable horror. We are haunted and tormented by the suffering that she must have endured in the violent act that caused her death."
