Killer cut up housemate’s body into 27 pieces before scattering parts from bag for life
A man who bludgeoned his friend and housemate to death then sawed him into 27 pieces has been jailed for 34 years.
Marcin Majerkiewicz, 42, killed Stuart Everett, 67, in Mr Everett’s home in Salford last year by striking him over the head with a weapon.
He then cut his friend’s body up before dumping the parts, which were later found in green spaces across Salford and north Manchester.
Majerkiewicz was convicted of Mr Everett’s murder on March 21, following a three-week trial.
He was jailed at Manchester Crown Court for life today, with a minimum term of 34 years.
Police say he had an obsession with gore and gruesome horror and has a tattoo of slasher-film character Jason from Friday the 13th.
Mr Everett was described as a jolly, friendly, mild-mannered man.
Trial judge Mr Justice Cavanagh told Majerkiewicz, who made no reaction as he was jailed, it was pre-planned murder for gain, to steal Mr Everett’s money to pay off the killer’s spiralling debts.
He 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 death and greatly increased the pain suffered by Stuart Everett’s family when the murder came to light.’
Retired civil servant Mr Everett was murdered overnight between March 27 and 28 last year.
But police were only alerted after his torso was found by a member of the public at Kersal Dale nature reserve in Salford on April 4.
Detectives searched CCTV from the area and found footage, recorded two days previously, of a man entering the wooded area carrying a heavy blue bagbag for life and emerging shortly after without it.
Footage was also found of him walking around Salford with the bag.
His identity was unknown but three weeks later, Majerkiewicz was spotted by an officer working on the case who drove past him by chance and noted he looked like the man from the CCTV.
Majerkiewicz was arrested soon after.
When police searched his home in Winton, Salford, they found evidence of blood on a carpet and furniture and an attempted clean-up after the murder dismemberment.
Only a third of Mr Everett’s body has been recovered.
He had worked for the NHS and Department for Work and Pensions and was known as “Benny” to his family.
He was not married and had no children, and was a fan of ‘Rat Pack’ singers Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, cricket and gardening.
In a victim impact statement read to the court, his brother Richard Ziemacki, said: ‘It’s extremely difficult to put into words how much I miss him. Seeing my brother on CCTV and listening to his voice for the last time will be moments that will live with me forever – I have no words other than absolutely horrendous.
‘Every day we have sat watching in disbelief as the evidence unfolded and clearly shown the way my brother’s end had been planned and orchestrated by an incredibly devious, monstrous individual.’
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