Man bludgeoned pensioner to death and then dragged bag with his body across city

Harrowing CCTV footage shows a killer dragging his dismembered housemate’s remains across Salford after he sawed his body into 27 pieces.

Marcin Majerkiewicz, 42, bludgeoned Stuart Everett to death before flaying his face off and chopping his body into dozens of pieces.

In chilling footage from April 2 last year, Majerkiewicz can be seen walking around Salford with the hacked up body parts in a ‘bag for life’ before dumping them in a nature reserve.

One of the clips shows Majerkiewicz swapping the heavy bag from his left hand to his right, as well as stopping for a few seconds to put the bag on the ground before continuing.

Mr Everett’s torso and thighs, which weighed around 12kg, were found by a member of the public in a bunker at Kersal Dale nature reserve in Salford, wrapped in cling film, in April last year.

Police were initially unable to identify the murder victim as Majerkiewicz had stolen his identity, sending cards and messages to Mr Everett’s relatives to make it seem as if he was still alive. 

While officers knew what Majerkiewicz, who was a suspect, looked like, they were not aware of his identity.

However, three weeks after the grim discovery, two plain-clothes officers working on the inquiry spotted Majerkiewicz by chance walking in the other direction and arrested him.

The officers turned the car around and followed the suspect on foot before he got on a number 100 bus.

Shortly afterwards, PC Paul Ashworth pulled his police car in front of the bus and boarded it.

Majerkiewicz was told he had been identified as a ‘person of interest’ in a police investigation.

He replied: ‘It’s definitely a mistake, 100%.’

On Friday, Majerkiewicz, who is Polish-born, was convicted of murdering and chopping up Mr Everett, 67, following a three-week trial.

After Mr Everett’s remains were found, it was evident his body had been ‘sawn into pieces’, a murder trial at Manchester Crown Court heard.

Mr Everett, who is also of Polish heritage, sublet a room to Majerkiewicz in nearby Winton.

Detectives pieced together Majerkiewicz’s movements in the days after the killing and found a further 26 parts of his body at four other locations.

Only around one-third of Mr Everett’s remains have so far been recovered.

The rest are feared to have been lost to nature.

Mr Everett’s skull alone was split into several fragments, while his face was stripped was off and dumped separately.

When Majerkiewicz, a father of two, was arrested three weeks after the torso was found, he was carrying two mobile phones and bank cards in the name of Mr Everett.

Bloodstains and saw marks at the house he had shared with Mr Everett revealed that ‘something terrible had happened’ there, prosecutor Jason Pitter KC told jurors.

A skip outside contained a range of incriminating discoveries, including pieces of the carpet from his room stained with diluted blood.

Police believe a hacksaw was used to cut up Mr Everett’s bones – one was found with his DNA on it near the reservoir where the skull fragments were located.

Meanwhile, a ‘sharp implement’ was believed to have been used to cut the soft tissues.

Skull fragments were analysed by a pathologist, who concluded that Mr Everett had been killed by ‘repeated strikes to the head with a heavy blunt implement’.

Police believe Mr Everett, an unmarried former civil servant originally from Derby, was killed on the night of March 27 last year.

He was christened Roman Ziemacki but anglicised his name.

The exact motive for the killing which preceded the brutal attempt by Majerkiewicz to cover his tracks is unknown, but his trial heard of ‘brewing tension’ in the shared house.

Issues included Mr Everett attempting to pass on a rent increase to Majerkiewicz and a second housemate, Michal Polchowski.

Concerns have been raised over the fact that Majerkiewicz – who had no previous convictions or cautions – had taken out loans to a total value of £60,000 in 2023.

He had also made searches online indicating that he was considering leaving for Spain, including a search for ‘long term rentals in Alicante’.

Interviewed by police, Majerkiewicz denied knowing anything about the killing of Mr Everett or the disposal of his body parts.

He said Mr Everett had not returned from visiting his brother in March and sent a message to say he had been hospitalised due to a stroke.

Asked if he believed Mr Everett was safe and well, jurors were told that Majerkiewicz replied: ‘I hope so – all leads need to be checked.’

Mr Pitter, the prosecutor, told jurors that this in fact happened – ‘and those leads point to him being responsible for murdering Stuart Everett’.

Police found that Majerkiewicz had taken out a phone in Mr Everett’s name months before his death.

On April 3, he researched Mr Everett’s brother’s address and sent him a birthday card purportedly from the dead man.

The phone was also used to access Mr Everett’s bank accounts.

Majerkiewicz did not give evidence in his defence during his trial.

In his closing speech, his barrister, Peter Wright KC, accepted that the evidence pointed ‘unerringly’ to his client having dumped Mr Everett’s body parts.

However, he said Majerkiewicz continued to deny having killed and dismembered him.

Jurors also heard that the second housemate, Mr Polchowski, was originally accused of murder as well, but the charges against him were dropped by prosecutors before the trial.

Mr Wright highlighted how Mr Polchowski – who worked at a food processing business with access to ‘industrial quantities’ of clingfilm – must have been at the house when Mr Everett was killed.

He suggested there remained ‘lingering doubts’ about whether Mr Polchowski had played any role, arguing that there was sufficient doubt for them to acquit his client.

But in his own speech, prosecutor Mr Pitter said there was ‘compelling’ evidence of Majerkiewicz’s guilt.

He asked jurors to consider why he would have been risking disposing of Mr Everett’s remains while Mr Polchowski continued ‘going about the monotony of his daily routine’ as usual.

It took a jury one hour and 36 minutes to convict Majerkiewicz.

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