Story summary
In March 2024, Marcin Majerkiewicz, a 42-year-old Polish man living in Winton, Salford, Greater Manchester, murdered his housemate, Stuart Everett, who was 67 years old. Majerkiewicz bludgeoned Everett with a hammer and then dismembered the body into 27 pieces using a hacksaw. He also removed Everett's face from his skull before disposing of various body parts across multiple sites in Salford and Manchester, including Linnyshaw Colliery Woods, Blackleach Reservoir, Worsley Woods, and Boggart Hole Clough.
The investigation began on April 4, 2024, when a human torso was found wrapped in cling film at Kersal Dale nature reserve. Police analyzed 15 crime scenes and identified five different sites where body parts were dumped. They pieced together thousands of hours of CCTV footage to track Majerkiewicz's movements.
Police arrested Majerkiewicz on a bus, an arrest that was captured on police body-worn cameras for the Channel 5 documentary 'Murder Scene: The Incident Room'. During his arrest, he questioned officers about the mistake, saying it was definitely a misunderstanding. The episode airs at 8pm tonight on Channel 5.
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This is the moment police finally caught a Polish murderer who dismembered his housemate's body and dumped the remains – after spotting him boarding a bus.
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Marcin Majerkiewicz, 42, bludgeoned Stuart Everett, 67, with a hammer at the house they shared in the Winton area of Salford, Greater Manchester, in March 2024.
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The father-of-two, who was obsessed with horror films, plundered Mr Everett's bank accounts then used a hacksaw to dismember his body - sawing him into 27 pieces.
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Majerkiewicz also flayed the face off Mr Everett's skull before taking body parts in plastic bags on bus journeys across Salford and Manchester to dump the evidence.
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Police body-worn footage of his arrest features in a new episode of Channel 5 documentary 'Murder Scene: The Incident Room' which airs at 8pm tonight.
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The clip, shared with the Daily Mail today, shows Majerkiewicz asking officers: 'Can you double check, please?'
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He adds: 'It's definitely a mistake, 100 per cent.'
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The investigation began when a member of the public found a human torso wrapped in cling film in a bunker at Kersal Dale nature reserve in Salford on April 4, 2024.
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CCTV showed a man carrying a large heavy bag into the area and leaving without it – and police spent weeks trying to identify both the victim and the man on camera.
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Marcin Majerkiewicz is arrested by police officers in Salford, Greater Manchester, in April 2024
He asks officers 'can you double check please', adding: 'It's definitely a mistake, 100 per cent'
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Officers found further CCTV footage of the man – who was Majerkiewicz - and identified a bus journey he had made, establishing that he bought a day ticket.
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This meant they could see all his journeys, which helped them trace him to the Winton area - where detectives then tried to get further CCTV to narrow the net.
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By chance, two plain-clothes officers involved in the investigation then spotted Majerkiewicz walking in the area and believed he matched the CCTV suspect.
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They saw him board a bus on Eccles New Road, before halting it and calling for uniformed officers to arrest him – three weeks after the initial discovery of remains.
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In the video of his arrest, Majerkiewicz is seen sitting on the bus while a voice on the police radio says: 'So it's a white male, he's wearing a dark or black coloured beanie hat with what looks like an orange logo on it, a dark grey jacket, light grey bottoms, carrying kind of grey bags for life and black trainers.'
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The officer on the bus replies: 'Got one matching that description.'
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Speaking to Majerkiewicz, he adds: 'Hands in front of you.
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You're being detained for the purposes of a search while we ascertain your identity, okay?
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Do you want to stand up for us?'
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Majerkiewicz appears bemused as he is led off the bus, and asks the officers: 'Can you double check please?'
He is then searched and asked whether he has anything sharp, replying: 'No, absolutely.'
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Majerkiewicz adds: 'It's definitely a mistake, 100 per cent.'
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But the officer says: 'I know, I appreciate that.
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All we've had is information passed to us from officers investigating a serious matter, as to whether you may be involved.'
Majerkiewicz was convicted of murder and jailed for life with a minimum term of 34 years
Stuart Everett was the identified as the victim in the Greater Manchester Police investigation
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When Majerkiewicz asks whether 'something happened in Eccles', the officer replies: 'No, not today, but it has happened recently.'
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Majerkiewicz is then told he is being arrested at the bus stop, with an officer saying: 'It's 1.12pm.
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'Do you understand the offence you're under arrest for in the meantime, okay?
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Suspicion of murder for an incident that occurred in Salford, alright?
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Majerkiewicz replies: 'What?'
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The officer says: 'You'll be taken to a police station for questioning regarding that.'
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And Majerkiewicz responds: 'OK, I go with you and I answer any questions.'
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When police searched his home in Winton, they found evidence of blood on a carpet and furniture and an attempted clean-up after the killing and dismemberment.
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Majerkiewicz continued to deny responsibility for the killing, but offered no evidence in his defence when the case went to trial – and was convicted of murder at Manchester Crown Court in March 2025.
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The killer – whom police said had an obsession with gore and gruesome horror and has a tattoo of slasher-film character Jason from 'Friday The 13th'- was later jailed for life with a minimum term of 34 years.
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The court heard he almost got away with the crime after disposing of the body, tricking Mr Everett's family that he was still alive and planning to flee abroad.
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CCTV showed Majerkiewicz walking around Salford carrying Mr Everett's body parts in a bag
Police stand by a forensic tent at Kersal Dale nature reserve in Salford after the discovery
Trial judge Mr Justice Cavanagh told Majerkiewicz it was a pre-planned murder for gain, to steal Mr Everett's money to pay off the killer's spiralling debts.
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Born Roman Ziemacki to Polish parents who came to the UK after surviving two years in a Russian concentration camp and settled in Derby, Mr Everett first met his killer while teaching English to recently arrived Polish immigrants in Manchester.
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Retired civil servant Mr Everett had worked for the NHS and Department for Work and Pensions.
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He was known as 'Benny' to his family, was not married and had no children.
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In 2013, Mr Everett began living in a three-bed terrace house on Worsley Road in Winton.
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He began sub-letting the two other bedrooms to two Polish men, Michal Polchowski, 68, with the other, Majerkiewicz, moving in during 2017.
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