A pensioner in Salford who was dismembered into 27 pieces was bludgeoned to death with a hammer-type weapon, a murder trial has heard.
Home Office pathologist Dr Philip Lumb said his post-mortem examination of the remains of Stuart Everett showed severe injuries to his head and skull.
Dr Lumb told jurors that 67-year-old Mr Everett was then dismembered using a hacksaw and serrated blade.
Marcin Majerkiewicz, 42, is on trial accused of the murder of Mr Everett, between March 27 and 28 last year.
Mr Everett, originally from Derby and born Roman Ziemacki to Polish parents, and Majerkiewicz, from Poland, lived together with another Polish man, food-processing factory worker Michal Polchowski, in a terrace house in Winton, Salford.
A murder investigation was launched after the discovery of a dismembered human torso in Kersal Dale nature reserve, Salford, on April 4 last year.
Police traced and arrested Majerkiewicz, who was seen on CCTV carrying a heavy bag and allegedly depositing the torso at Kersal Dale.
He is accused of dismembering his victim before putting body parts in bags and going on bus journeys to “deposition sites” to get rid of the evidence.
At Manchester Crown Court today (Monday 17 March), Dr Lumb showed jurors a model of Mr Everett’s skull, showing fractures and a large wound in the back, right-side of the head.
He said: “We have a number of blunt force impacts to the head which has caused severe fatal injuries.
“It’s shelved inside of the skull, collapsed in. Something blunt has punched a hole in the skull.”
Jason Pitter KC, prosecuting, asked what could have caused such injuries.
Dr Lumb said: “It’s a blunt, heavy implement, some of the lacerations on the back of the scalp had a curved element to them, that might be a curved, blunt, heavy weapon, such as, for example, a hammer.”
Mr Pitter said: “But can you say it was caused by a hammer?”
Dr Lumb said: “No, I can’t. It’s an example of the type of weapon used in this case.”
The pathologist was also asked about what had been used to dismember the body, and he said: “Tool-marker analysis and the findings was, this was most likely a hacksaw to cut through the bone.
“The bone appears to have been sawn by a serrated edge.”
Dr Lumb said it appeared the flesh had been cut with a sharp instrument with a serrated blade – and jurors have been told that only about one third of Mr Everett’s body has been recovered.
Majerkiewicz denies manslaughter and murder – the trial was adjourned until Tuesday morning (18 March).
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