Marcin Majerkiewicz hid the body parts of victim 67-year-old Stuart Everett across Greater Manchester before being caught, as one police officer told of the killer’s sick ‘cat and mouse’ game
A horror film-obsessed killer who played ‘cat and mouse’ with detectives is awaiting sentencing after being found guilty of murder. Marcin Majerkiewicz murdered 67-year-old Stuart Everett before savagely dismembering his body into 27 parts before hiding them across Greater Manchester.
Majerkiewicz, 42, faces a potential life sentence when he appears in court on Friday. It comes after a huge police investigation was launched on April 4 last year after a member of the public found the lower back, buttocks and a thigh tightly wrapped in cling film in a graffiti-covered bunker in Kersal Dale, a park in Salford.
Police went on to find body parts in five more locations. Detectives later established Majerkiewicz had bludgeoned Mr Everett, 67, with a hammer. He then used a hacksaw to cut him up into pieces.
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The 42-year-old lived with Mr Everett in a house in Winton, where the murder was carried out. Some 27 parts were eventually found, though two thirds of his body remain unaccounted for.
Around the time Mr Everett was murdered, between the night of March 27 last year and the early hours of March 28, Majerkiewicz had been watching trailers for the Australian horror film Wolf Creek 3. His trial heard of multiple searches also discovered on his phone for graphic horror films, though no motive for the killing has never been established.
Now, an officer from Greater Manchester Police has offered his theory on why the body part discovered at Kersal Dale had been left out in the open, despite Majerkiewicz “going to great lengths” to hide the remains in other locations.
Suggesting he may have wanted to them to be found as part of his “cat and mouse game” with police, he told Manchester Evening News: “A theory that it was left intentionally to be found is not without basis.
“You could say it has been left on display. I believe Majerkiewicz was confident he was going to get away with Stuart’s murder and GMP wouldn’t solve this. It is rare that we get a bit of cat and mouse with the suspect… leaving us something we may well find, or will be reported to us.
“He thought he had done enough to get away with it. He may have been just lazy or it may well be he wanted to take a chance and see what GMP would do if it was reported to us.”
Majerkiewicz was convicted by a jury after just one hour, 36 minutes of deliberations, following a three-week trial at Manchester Crown Court. Richard Ziemacki, the victim’s older brother from the family’s hometown of Derby, told reporters outside court that his family were “still haunted” by what happened to Stuart.
He added: “For any person to be treated in the way he was, brutally murdered, and systematically and comprehensively disposed of, has meant our family have been left traumatised beyond belief. Our family is now incomplete.
“The past 12 months have been some of the most challenging our family has ever had to endure. But this has been made just that little bit easier because of the outpouring of love and comforting words from people across Greater Manchester, from Derby and beyond, who have all come together to mourn with us a truly unique and special human being.”