A man has been found guilty of murdering his housemate whose body was dismembered into 27 pieces and dumped across a city.

Marcin Majerkiewicz, who had an “obsession with gore and gruesome horror”, killed Stuart Everett, 67, with a hammer-type weapon before cutting his body up with a hacksaw.

Some of Mr Everett’s remains were first discovered by a member of the public in an abandoned bunker at a nature reserve in Salford in April last year.

Majerkiewicz, 42, had denied murdering him, between 27 and 28 March but he was convicted by a jury at Manchester Crown Court.

A murder investigation began after Mr Everett’s torso was found wrapped in cling-film at Kersal Dale nature reserve on 4 April.

Majerkiewicz had put his body parts in bags and took bus journeys across Salford and Manchester to dump the evidence.

He was seen on CCTV struggling to carry a heavy bag and then dumping it.

Police did not know the identity of the man in the footage but three weeks later Majerkiewicz was spotted by an officer who drove past him by chance and noted he looked like the man from the CCTV.

Mr Everett’s remains were also found at Linnyshaw Colliery Woods, Boggart Hole Clough, Blackleach Reservoir, Worsley Woods and Chesterfield Close.

The trial heard only a third of his body had been recovered.

Mr Everett, originally from Derby and born Roman Ziemacki to Polish parents, and Majerkiewicz, from Poland, lived together with another man in his house in Winton, Salford.

Mr Everett first met his killer while teaching English to recently arrived Polish immigrants and Majerkiewicz moved in during 2017, the trial was told.

A forensic examination found blood on the carpet, wall and chest of drawers in Majerkiewicz’s bedroom and evidence of a clean-up.

A rectangular piece of carpet had been cut out and replaced with another piece, but the original carpet which had widespread blood staining matching Mr Everett’s DNA, was recovered in a skip outside the house.

The court heard Majerkiewicz had worked as a manager at fast-food shops in the Trafford Centre but was unemployed at the time of the murder and had debts of about £60,000.

Greater Manchester Police said Majerkiewicz had an obsession with gore and gruesome horror and a tattoo of slasher-film character Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th but his motive remained unclear.

Det Supt Lewis Hughes said Majerkiewicz had a “fixation with horror and gore” but the team had “not confirmed any clear motive, these are all relevant factors in what may have been going on, financial issues, debt, problems paying the bills, potentially a relationship between the two of them”.

Jurors convicted him of murder in under two hours of deliberations following a three-week trial at Manchester Crown Court.

Trial judge Mr Justice Cavanagh told Majerkiewicz he faced a mandatory life sentence but he must set the minimum time before parole, which would happen on 28 March.