Police at the property in Pleasant View, Felinfoel, where the charred remains of Mariusz Majewski were found
THE Polish man whose dismembered and burnt remains were found in a Llanelli garden was an amphetamine dealer, a court has heard.
Mariusz Majewski had lived at the house in the Felinfoel area of the town for around six weeks before he disappeared in November last year.
Fragments of his charred bones were subsequently found in a specially constructed fire pit in the back garden when armed police forced entry to the Pleasant View property.
READ MORE: Llanelli murder trial hears body was chopped up with an axe and saw before being incinerated in back garden
The owner of the house, Phillip Hudson-Jones, along with Polish national Adrian Iwanowski are accused of murdering the 31-year-old and burning the body.
Another three people — Adam Goodwin, Jason Henderson and Sophie Jones — are accused of assisting an offender by acting to conceal a body.
All five deny the charges against them.
Today, Swansea Crown Court heard evidence from Husdson-Jones's next-door-neighbour, Samantha Wooloff, who said she and the deceased had "clicked" after he moved in, and had become friendly.
She described him as "morally, a good guy" — despite his "doing the wrong thing" with his amphetamine dealing — and said he would show her pictures of his daughter back home in Poland.
She told the court she knew Hudson-Jones and Mr Majewski were dealing amphetamine, and that she stored a stash of their drug in her freezer for them.
The court heard that in the week before Mr Majewski died, Hudson-Jones had gone to Miss Wooloff's house and taken some of the amphetamine without the Polish man's knowledge.
Miss Wooloff also told the court that Mr Majewski told her he had hit Iwanowski over the head with a curtain pole at the end of October after Hudson-Jones had told him Iwanowski had taken some of his amphetamine
The neighbour then said that on Friday, November 7, she heard a "massive argument" coming from next door — that evening Hudson-Jones told her he had hit Mr Majewski, and his Polish housemate had gone.
It is the Crown's case that Hudson-Jones killed Mr Majewski after Iwanowski asked him to in retaliation for the curtain pole assault incident, and the pair then burnt the body. An attempt was then made to clean blood stains from the inside of the Pleasant View house.
The court also heard evidence today from one of the armed police officers who were sent to the house on November 10 last year.
In a written statement to the court the officer recounted how, when knocks to the front door went unanswered, entry was forced to the property. Inside they found Hudson-Jones — naked except for a blanket wrapped around his body. When they told him to put his hands up, his blanket fell to the floor.
The court heard officers had gone to the house after co-accused Iwanowski had told police he had seen a body in a shallow grave in the garden, and had been forced to help burn it after Hudson-Jones threatened him.
Hudson-Jones was initially arrested on suspicious of making threats to kill, and while being taken to Llanelli police station in the back of a police car - he had by this time been given clothes to wear - was described as "rambling" and talking incoherently, telling officers "They are going to kill me - you can't protect me".
Hudson-Jones, aged 45, of Pleasant View, Felinfoel, Llanelli, Iwanowski, aged 21, now of Station Road, Llanelli, Goodwin, aged 37, of Caeglas, Cross Hands, Henderson, aged 44, of Foelgastell near Brechfa, and 18-year-old Sophie Jones of Clos St Paul, Llanelli, all deny the charges against them.
The trial — which is expected to last six weeks — continues.
Read more at http://www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/murder-trial-hears-victim-and-accused-were-amphetamine-dealers/story-29784712-detail/story.html#4P3fvrbaS4g1TEXH.99
No comments:
Post a Comment