Former butcher who dismembered victim and hid body in barrel jailed for 35 years

Christopher Wright has been jailed for a minimum of 35 years (Picture: PA)

A man who dismembered his victim, then hid the body in a concrete-filled barrel, has been jailed for at least 35 years.

Farmer Christopher Wright, 73, was convicted last month of murdering Richard Dyson, 55, who disappeared in 2019, then concealing the body for six years.

Mr Dyson, who lived in his car on Wright’s land at Hoyland, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, was reported missing by his daughter.

The police missing person’s inquiry became a murder investigation and last year officers found the concealed body in a barrel on a trailer.

Mr Dyson did odd jobs for the farmer, but the two fell out after Wright, an antique firearms collector, suspected him of stealing from him and selling on possessions.

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