Two “lieutenants” found guilty of murdering a Polish drug dealer and then dismembering and burning his body have been sentenced to life imprisonment.
Philip Hudson-Jones was jailed for 22 years for killing Mariusz Majewski at the former’s house in Felinfoel, Llanelli , last November.
Adrian Iwanowski was given a 15-year term, but both will serve one year less due to the time they have already spent in custody.
The jury found Hudson-Jones guilty by an 11 to one verdict and Iwanowski by 10 to two after a direction had been given that a majority verdict was acceptable.
Murder arose from the “violent atmosphere which surrounds the commercial dealing” of drugs
Sentencing the pair at Swansea Crown Court , the Honourable Mr Justice Edis said 45-year-old Hudson-Jones was “far more culpable” than 21-year-old Iwanowski.
Justice Edis said Mariusz Majewski’s murder arose from the “violent atmosphere which surrounds the commercial dealing” of drugs — in this case amphetamines.
“He was a drug dealer and he recruited you two to act as his lieutenants,” he said. “Philip Hudson-Jones offered him a place to live and took an active part in drug dealing.
“Adrian Iwanowski was the one who played the biggest part in taking the drugs out and selling them. Mariusz Majewski needed this help because he was on the run from the police in Germany and perhaps also from where he had perhaps stolen the drugs that were being sold.
“He stayed out of sight while others ran the drugs on his behalf. He was the leader and promoter of this criminal enterprise and he was the one who attracted serious violence on it.”
Justice Edis said Majewski attacked Iwanowski on October 28 last year — around a week before his death — with “a bat of some description” due to some of his drugs being taken. This attack, he said, resulted in the younger man encouraging Hudson-Jones to kill him.
“If he (Majewski) had not done that it is conceivable that neither of you would have become involved in his murder. He was a dangerous and violent man, but that was why he had to be taken out as he was.
“Adrian Iwanowski decided that the problem needed to be sorted out that didn’t involve contacting the police. Inevitably, given the character of Mariusz Majewski, if it was sorted out by the use of violence, it could only be sorted out by the use of serious violence.”
"How he really died will never be known"
He said Iwanowski “clearly had some sort of hold” over Hudson-Jones, with the older man sending him a message on Facebook after the killing which said: “I would not do this for anyone except for you.”
Justice Edis said there was no evidence to dispute that Hudson-Jones had killed Majewski with a blow to the head — the defendant had claimed he was acting in self-defence when he struck him with an axe — but added that it was a “deliberate killing”.
He also said: “How he really died will never be known.”
Justice Edis said the concealment of the body was “also part of the plan”, and that the “cutting off of the legs and upper left arm are acts of truly appalling barbarity”.
He said it was not clear at what point Iwanowski joined in the destruction of the body, and that he had taken a lot of persuading that the killing had actually been carried out. But he said the younger man was not in fear of Hudson-Jones.
“He (Iwanowski) joined in the appalling scene when the fire was burning, not because of fear but because he wanted to.”
He added that the younger man had expected the grisly murder and dismemberment to be like a horror film but that “the reality was something very different — indeed it did unnerve you”.
Justice Edis said both defendants would serve their terms in full and only then be eligible for release.
Three other people — Adam Goodwin, aged 37, of Caeglas, Cross Hands, Jason Henderson, aged 44, of Foelgastell near Brechfa, and Sophie Jones, 18, of Clos St Paul, Llanelli — were in the dock accused of assisting an offender by acting to conceal a body.
Goodwin and Henderson were found not guilty, unlike Jones, who will be sentenced on November 24.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/pair-found-guilty-murder-drug-12118777
racism in uk has gone bigger after brexit that's why adrian iwanowski was sentenced as there was no evidence against him and philip robert hudson said adrian did not help him, UK LAW NEEDS TO BE CHANGED BECAUSE TO MANY too INNOCENT PEOPLE GO TO JAIL, WALES IS A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE SHOULDNT BE TAKEN INTO COURT AS 2IN3 PEOPLE GO TO JAIL FOR BEING INNOCENT
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