Man found guilty of murdering pensioner - whose dismembered body was scattered across Manchester

A man with a "fixation" for horror and gore has been found guilty of murdering his housemate and sawing him into 27 pieces.

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Marcin Majerkiewicz killed 67-year-old Stuart Everett with a hammer before dismembering him using a hacksaw at their home in Winton, Salford, overnight between 27 and 28 March 2024, Manchester Crown Court heard.

Majerkiewicz, 42, flayed off Mr Everett's face before carrying his body parts on several bus journeys across Salford and Greater Manchester to dump the evidence.

Police were only alerted when they found the victim's torso in Kersal Dale nature reserve in Salford on 4 April.

Officers scoured CCTV footage from the site and saw a man going into a wooded area of the reserve with a heavy blue bag - emerging soon after without it.

Three weeks later, an officer working on the case drove past Majerkiewicz by chance - realising he looked like the suspect from CCTV.

When police arrested him and searched the address, where Majerkiewicz had moved to in 2017, they found heavy bloodstaining in his bedroom - suggesting he had attacked his victim there.

Only third of victim's body recovered

Other remains were found across five nature sites including Linnyshaw Colliery Woods, Blackleach Reservoir, Worsley Woods, and Boggart Hole Clough. Only a third of his body has been recovered.

There were a total of 15 crime scenes, including one on the side of the canal near the men's home.

Only 30% of Mr Everett's body was recovered - with the rest unlikely to ever be found, police said.

On Friday, jurors took less than two hours to convict Majerkiewicz, who was born in the UK to Polish parents and grew up in Derby.

He denied the murder but offered no evidence to support his plea during the three-week trial.

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'No clear motive'

Speaking after the case, Greater Manchester Police's (GMP) Detective Superintendent Lewis Hewis said: "Marjerkiewicz does have a fixation with horror and gore as we know from his search history, the videos he watches, his tattoos.

"We don't know why he removed the face, if it's something, sort of weird fantasy or behaviour or it's just an attempt to mask identification, we don't know.

"We haven't confirmed any clear motive, these are all relevant factors in what may have been going on, financial issues, debt, problems paying the bills, potentially relationship between the two of them."

Mr Everett met his killer when he was teaching English to recently arrived Polish immigrants.

He had also worked for the NHS and Department for Work and Pensions.

Mr Everett was unmarried and had no children. Known as "Benny" to his family, they did not realise he was dead - as Majerkiewicz had taken control of his phone and finances, sending text messages and a birthday card to his relatives to pretend he was still alive.

Mr Everett began living in the three-bedroom house in Winton in 2013.

He then sub-let the other two rooms to two Polish men - Majerkiewicz and Michal Polchowsk, 68.

Mr Polchowsk, a food-processing factory worker, was initially charged with his housemate's murder but the case against him was dropped.

Majerkiewicz was unemployed when he committed his crimes and was £60,000 in debt, his trial was told.

Jurors excused for five years

Thanking jurors afterwards, the judge Mr Justice Cavanagh excused them from jury service for the next five years as the case "had its stressful and traumatic elements".

Rebecca Macaulay-Addison, from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said: "Marcin Majerkiewicz murdered Stuart Everett before making a despicable and disturbing attempt to cover his tracks by disposing of Mr Everett's remains."

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