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Jamie Dack bin murder trial: Four people jailed | Jamie Dack bin murder trial: Four people jailed |
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Four people have been jailed for life for killing a homeless man in Southampton and burning his body in a bin. | Four people have been jailed for life for killing a homeless man in Southampton and burning his body in a bin. |
Fire crews found the charred remains of Jamie Dack, 22, in an industrial bin on 8 April last year. | Fire crews found the charred remains of Jamie Dack, 22, in an industrial bin on 8 April last year. |
Ryan Woodmansey, 32, Andrew Dwyer-Skeats, 27, and Donna Chalk, 22, were told they would serve a minimum of 30, 32 and 25 years respectively. | Ryan Woodmansey, 32, Andrew Dwyer-Skeats, 27, and Donna Chalk, 22, were told they would serve a minimum of 30, 32 and 25 years respectively. |
A fourth defendant Lee Nicholls, 29, was given 34 years. | A fourth defendant Lee Nicholls, 29, was given 34 years. |
Nicholls had changed his plea to guilty, prompting a retrial at Winchester Crown Court. | Nicholls had changed his plea to guilty, prompting a retrial at Winchester Crown Court. |
'Orgy of violence' | |
Jurors had heard how the four locked Mr Dack in a flat at Bevois Mews, Southampton, and attacked him with a baseball bat, bottles and knives. | Jurors had heard how the four locked Mr Dack in a flat at Bevois Mews, Southampton, and attacked him with a baseball bat, bottles and knives. |
The gang forced him to hand over his bank Pin code and stole his laptop. | The gang forced him to hand over his bank Pin code and stole his laptop. |
They killed Mr Dack to stop him from going to police. | They killed Mr Dack to stop him from going to police. |
The four were arrested after Mr Dack's body was discovered in a bin at Empress Road Industrial Estate in Southampton. | The four were arrested after Mr Dack's body was discovered in a bin at Empress Road Industrial Estate in Southampton. |
In passing sentence, the judge, Mr Justice Walker, said Mr Dack was subjected to "an orgy of violence". | |
"Horrific violence was to be inflicted, producing a chewed-up, mashed area of the body in the region of the shoulder," he said. | |
He said Lee Nicholls had inflicted the four fatal wounds to the neck but Ryan Woodmansey, and Andrew Dwyer-Skeats, were "part of the fatal attack and shared that intention to kill". | |
He said that Donna Chalk had "deliberately continued to encourage this violence by [her] presence". | |
After the trial, Mark Gammon, senior crown prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said the killers were fuelled by "mixed and developing motives". | After the trial, Mark Gammon, senior crown prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said the killers were fuelled by "mixed and developing motives". |
He added: "At no point did any of them show any remorse for what they did or display any empathy towards the plight of Mr Dack." | He added: "At no point did any of them show any remorse for what they did or display any empathy towards the plight of Mr Dack." |
Chalk, of Byron Road, Southampton, Dwyer-Skeats, of Bevois Mews, Southampton and Woodmansey, of no fixed abode, each also admitted a charge of perverting the course of justice and received four years to serve concurrent to their sentence. | Chalk, of Byron Road, Southampton, Dwyer-Skeats, of Bevois Mews, Southampton and Woodmansey, of no fixed abode, each also admitted a charge of perverting the course of justice and received four years to serve concurrent to their sentence. |
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