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Marcus Volcke, the 28-year-old Australian chef who made headlines over the weekend by chopping his 27-year-old Indonesian transsexual wife, Mayang Prasetyo, and cooking parts of her body in chemicals in their Brisbane flat, was also a sex trade worker.

Read: Young Aussie Chef Kills Self After Chopping Body & Cooking Tranny-Wife In Chemicals

He worked also as prostitute in Copenhagen, Melbourne, according to the owner of a brothel operator in the city. The gruesome deaths of the couple could be the result of their operating illegally as sex trade workers which could involve drugs, assault and abuse that are often undetected because such people are often ostracised by their kin and friends.

"As a brothel owner it amazes me that if you sell cars, alcohol or food without a licence, they will prosecute you. Selling sex illegally is ignored," the Herald Sun quoted the sex den operator.

His murder of Prasetyo exposed Volcke's own double life as a kitchen and bedroom expert as details of his online posting of sexual services he was offering emerged. Volcke described himself in one online ad in Copenhagen as a

"young sexy Australian boy, very friendly and easygoing, discreet and professional."

The seemingly dual world of Volcke was further confirmed by Rob Sinclair, his former friend, who said the chef was a karate black belter and interested in nutrition. Sinclair said that the chef, also a known anti-violence against women and animals advocate, was always a polite and nice person who opened doors for other people.

Sinclair added that Volcke's fondness for fitness is an indicator the chef didn't have a drug habit. However, he noticed the depression in his friend based on the chef's last two photographs posted in his social media accounts where Volcke's eyes showed a different person.

"I don't know what happened to him but it looks like all the life has been dragged out of him," added Sinclair who guessed the change could have happened aboard the cruise ship where he worked and met Mayang and married her. "Something must (have) happened to him while he was overseas, that desensitised him or caused him to spiral into that depressive state. He was very isolated the whole time he was overseas."

Meanwhile, Prasetyo's former employer in Melbourne described the transsexual as a beautiful person who regularly sent money back to Lampung, Indonesia, to sent two younger sisters, aged 15 and 18, to school.

Nining Sukarni, the mother, still referred to the chopped prostitute as her son named Febri Andriansyah. She disclosed that Febri was a "normal" boy who underwent breast and facial surgery in 2009.

As Mayang, she sought her mother's approval before she married Volcke in 2013. The newlyweds even visited her last year. She described the husband of Mayang as a kind and polite person. Sukarni disclosed that her son got his female name from Indonesian singer Mayang Sari and the surname Prasetyo was the last name of her previous boyfriend.

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