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| Shaun Cummins murder: Thomas Dunkley guilty of killing ex-boxer | Shaun Cummins murder: Thomas Dunkley guilty of killing ex-boxer |
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| A man has been found guilty of murdering a former boxer and chopping up his body. | A man has been found guilty of murdering a former boxer and chopping up his body. |
| Thomas Dunkley, 29, of no fixed abode, had denied killing ex-WBA light-middleweight champion Shaun Cummins but admitted preventing the burial of a body and four counts of fraud. | Thomas Dunkley, 29, of no fixed abode, had denied killing ex-WBA light-middleweight champion Shaun Cummins but admitted preventing the burial of a body and four counts of fraud. |
| Mr Cummins' body was found in 10 pieces inside three freezers at his home in Marriott Road, Leicester in September. | Mr Cummins' body was found in 10 pieces inside three freezers at his home in Marriott Road, Leicester in September. |
| A jury at Leicester Crown Court returned a majority verdict. | A jury at Leicester Crown Court returned a majority verdict. |
| Mr Cummins had retired from boxing in 1995 and was paralysed in a motorbike accident in 2004, which left him requiring home care. | |
| Dunkley was described as Mr Cummins' "informal carer". | |
| During the seven-day trial, Dunkley admitted cutting up the ex-boxer's body with a chainsaw and storing it in freezers at Cummins' bungalow. | |
| He denied murder and claimed he had panicked after Cummins died of natural causes in his sleep. |