Judicial authorities ordered the arrest of Yeison Alberto Melo after forensic experts confirmed the victim's identity through DNA analysis and he is due to stand trial for murder Melo, 27, is accused of trying to incinerate his grandmother's body in an oven (Image: Jam Press)

A grandson is due to stand trial accused of murdering his own nan, cooking her body – and burying her remains in flower pots dotted about her house.

Yeison Alberto Melo, 27, is said to have tried to incinerate his grandmother's body in an oven three months after she had taken him into her home. He is being held on remand ahead of a trial.

The unnamed victim, a 68-year-old seamstress, had taken her grandson into her home three months before she was killed, local media in Colombia report. At the time, h

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