Salford killer who dismembered housemate's body jailed for at least 34 years

BBC News

28-03-2025

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A murderer who dismembered his housemate's body before dumping his remains across a wide area has been jailed for a minimum of 34 years.Police said Marcin Majerkiewicz, who had an "obsession with gore and gruesome horror", killed Stuart Everett and then used a hacksaw to cut the 67-year-old's body into 27 pieces.Some of Mr Everett's remains were found by a member of the public at a nature reserve in Salford, Greater Manchester, in April 2024.Majerkiewicz, 42, was arrested after police spotted him carrying a bag in which he had kept the remains. He was sentenced at Manchester Crown Court to serve at least 34 years in prison.
'Callous and premeditated'
During sentencing, Mr Justice Cavanagh said: "You acted in an almost unbelievably cold-blooded and macabre way, and showed complete disrespect and contempt for your friend's remains."This denied dignity to Stuart Everett even in his death and greatly increased the pain suffered by his family when the murder came to light."In his victim impact statement, Mr Everett's brother Richard Ziemacki said the family had been "devastated by the inhumane and cruel way his life was ended".He added: "We cannot express how we all feel about losing such an endearing and loving human being."Not only were we all horrified by the way he left us, but for any person to be treated in the way he was systematically and comprehensively disposed of has left us traumatised beyond belief."Mr Ziemacki said his brother, known by the family as Benny, "did not deserve to have his life ended in such a callous and premeditated manner".
Mr Everett, originally from Derby and born Roman Ziemacki to Polish parents, had worked for both the NHS and the Department for Work and Pensions.The court heard he first met Majerkiewicz while teaching English to Polish immigrants.In 2013, Mr Everett moved to a three-bed terraced house on Worsley Road in the Winton area of Salford.He later started sub-letting two of the bedrooms, with Majerkiewicz taking one of them in 2017.Majerkiewicz, who had worked as a manager at fast food shops in the Trafford Centre, was unemployed at the time of the murder.The father-of-two was also about £60,000 in debt, the court heard.While Majerkiewicz's motives remained unclear, police said he had a "fixation with horror and gore" and had a tattoo of the Friday the 13th slasher-film character Jason Voorhees.Det Supt Lewis Hughes, of Greater Manchester Police, said: "These are all relevant factors in what may have been going on - financial issues, debt, problems paying the bills, potentially a relationship between the two of them."
The court heard Majerkiewicz killed Mr Everett with a hammer-type weapon before dismembering his body.He put the body parts in bags before taking bus journeys across Salford and Manchester to dump them.CCTV footage also showed him carrying a heavy bag, visibly struggling as he passed it between his hands.Police were initially alerted when a member of the public found a human torso in Salford woodland on 4 April 2024.CCTV revealed that a man had entered the area two days before, carrying a heavy blue bag and emerging shortly afterwards without it.Three weeks later, two police officers were driving along Eccles Old Road trying to find further CCTV when they spotted someone who they believed to be the suspect carrying the bag seen in earlier footage.They followed Majerkiewicz as he boarded a bus and then arrested him on suspicion of murder.The 42-year-old told officers they had made a "mistake 100%" as he was detained, but the evidence against him proved overwhelming.Police eventually found human remains in six different areas across Salford and Manchester, including by a canal.
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