THIS is the chilling moment a man allegedly dumped his housemate’s body parts in a bag for life, after chopping him into 27 pieces with a hacksaw.
Marcin Majerkiewicz, 42, was arrested on April 25 last year over the death of Stuart Everett, 67.
A pensioner’s decapitated body was found by a passerby in a nature reserve in Salford on April 4. Subsequently, the police uncovered additional body parts scattered across six different locations.
Recently, CCTV footage presented in Manchester Crown Court depicted Majerkiewicz carrying a heavy bag to a designated site in Kersal Dale, Salford on April 2, 2024. The prosecution claims this was a “deposition site.”
The 42-year-old, who denies murdering Mr Everett, is then allegedly seen returning with the bag empty and folded up.
This was one of several journeys Majerkiewicz made to dispose of the dead body, the prosecution allege.
He does not dispute being in the footage, but denies that he was in the process of discarding body parts, it is understood.
Mr Everett, also known as Roman Ziemacki, is believed to have died overnight between March 27 and 28 last year.
The former civil servant, originally from Derby, was killed before his body was “sawn into 27 pieces”, the court previously heard.
Examinations of the skull fragments revealed signs of a brutal physical assault involving severe blunt force trauma. The victim had endured multiple blows to the head resulting in skull fractures, before being dismembered using a hacksaw.
Jurors were told that only around one third of his body has so far been recovered.
Three weeks after the grim discovery – following the discovery of the CCTV – two plain-clothes officers passed the suspect in an unmarked police car, the court heart.
The Investigation Support Officer (ISO), Clare Daly, told her colleague ISO Matthew Ross, behind the wheel: “I think that’s the suspect.”
In a statement, read to the jury, she added: “I saw an individual on the pathway who matched the description of the suspect we were trying to trace.”
The officers turned the car around and followed the suspect on foot before he got on a number 100 bus, the court heard.
Shortly afterwards, PC Paul Ashworth pulled his police car in front of the bus and boarded.
Bodycam footage played to the jury showed the officer telling the suspect he was being detained to be searched, before he was handcuffed and taken off the bus.
Majerkiewicz was told he had been identified as a “person of interest” in a police investigation.
He replied: “It’s definitely a mistake, 100 per cent.”
PC Ashworth then tells Majerkiewicz he has been seen on several occasions on CCTV by police investigating a serious incident.
Majerkiewicz later says: “Someone steal something?”
Pc Ashworth replies: “It’s a bit more serious than that, matey.”
Police found Majerkiewicz had on him the phone and bank cards belonging to Mr Everett.
Minutes later, the officer then cautions Majerkiewicz, warning he is being arrested on suspicion of murder.
“What?” the suspect replies, before asking for a translator and shaking his head.
When police went to the house Majerkiewicz shared with Mr Everett on Worsley Road in Winton, they found a skip outside full of household items.
Inside they found evidence of bloodstaining and a clean-up operation, showing “something terrible had happened in that house”, Jason Pitter KC, prosecuting, told jurors.
Mr Everett and Mr Majerkiewicz lived together along with another man named Michal Polchowski, 68.
The trial continues.
