Stuart Everett’s Manchester murder and dismemberment was “like what horror movies are made of”, his brother Richard Ziemacki said after his twisted killer was jailed
A sick killer sent a birthday card to the brother of his victim after chopping him into pieces and scattering his remains across two cities.
Richard Ziemacki has told how he received a card from his brother, Stuart Everett, in the post just in time for his birthday in spring 2024, signed with the 67-year-old’s nickname “Benny”. While it seemed to have come straight from Mr Everett – who wrote to his brother on special occasions – the pen behind the signature was held by his twisted killer, Marcin Majerkiewicz. Majerkiewicz, Mr Everett’s housemate, had written the letter to cover his tracks after killing Stuart and chopping his body into dozens of pieces.
Mr Everett was brutally murdered on March 27, and the card, Richard said, arrived several days later, around April 4. While it did not initially raise alarm bells, the correspondance eventually became a piece of evidence after a member of the public discovered one of up to 27 pieces of his brother’s body scattered across Manchester and Salford.
Speaking to the Manchester Evening News, Richard said Majerkiewicz, 42, had tried to impersonate his brother over text before he was killed, messaging him to say he was moving home. He wrote that he was “sorry things turned out this way and you are only just finding out”, adding that, with his health, it was “bound to happen”.
Again, the message didn’t raise alarm bells, and Richard remained unsuspecting until some time after he received a call from the police after a small portion of his brother’s remains were uncovered on April 4. Recalling the call, he said: “It was about four or five days after that when I was coming in from the garden that my phone started ringing.
“An officer was on the other end. He was very straightforward about it all, and said some remains had been found in an area of [Greater] Manchester, which they believed could be of some relation to me. He said they wanted to allocate some liaison officers to come and see me. But I said that Stuart had been contacting me and that I even got a birthday card from him. I said he was alive.”
He started suspecting something had happened to his brother after liaison officers arrived at his home, and he had a second look at the card, which later became evidence. He said: “But when the liaison officers came, we started thinking about it. I looked at the card and thought, ‘that’s not his writing’ and ‘that’s not the sort of thing he’d put in it’.
“It became a piece of the evidence. And it was a good piece of evidence, because Majerkiewicz’s fingerprints were on it.” After launching their investigation, police discovered additional body parts scattered across five more locations, with numerous green spaces becoming crime scenes.
A lower torso, pelvis and thighs were found wrapped in clingfilm in Kersal Dale, and additional grim packages of bones, muscle tissue and parts of a skull were discovered in Linnyshaw Colliery Woods. The front and back of a skull were recovered alongside a hacksaw in a local reservoir days later.
Police recovered additional remains stuffed in in bags from Blackleach Reservoir, on land off Chesterfield Close in Eccles, and in Boggart Hole Clough. Majerkiewicz is believed to have murdered Mr Everett with a hammer in his bedroom at the home they shared in Manchester, although, while admitting to disposing of his body parts, he denied murdering him.
Richard said the horror ordeal was “like what horror movies are made of”. He said: “To actually murder somebody and then go to the lengths that he did, to disguise that he’d actually done it, and then dispose of his body in several, numerous places to try and get away with it. It’s like what horror movies are made of.”
