Son Kills His Dad And Uses The Body Parts As TV Stand.

A university graduate who killed his 25-stone father, cut up his body and packaged his limbs in plastic storage boxes to use as a television stand was jailed for life today. Nathan Robinson, 27 - who dismembered his father William Spiller's corpse with a Stanley knife, hacksaw and saw - was told he will serve a minimum of 30 years.

He then placed his father's cut up body into plastic storage boxes, using them as a stand for his television, which he placed on top.

The following day, the University of Aberystwyth mathematics graduate set off for a weekend away to visit friends in Glasgow with a boxset of Saw horror films in his black holdall, a court heard.
Before leaving the flat he shared with his 48-year-old father, Robinson set about cleaning up his crime.

He went out and purchased a floor and steam cleaner from Homebase but flooded the bathroom at the pair's shared flat in Bournemouth, Dorset.

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Pink droplets then began to soak the walls of the flat below belonging to neighbour David Kiff, 67, Winchester Crown Court heard.

The court heard how Robinson killed his father for 'financial gain' and wanted to 'help himself' to £10,000 of his father's money.


In the following month, he then covered his tracks by using his father's mobile phone, sending text messages posing as the 6ft 4in, 25-stone Mr Spiller.

Robinson denied murdering his father on May 16 last year but admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

He was convicted after a four week trial at Winchester Crown Court, Hants, last week.
Nigel Lickley QC, prosecuting, said Robinson murdered his father over 'money disputes' and owed him a figure in the region of £36,000.
He said: "Police attended the flat and noted strong smells and flies, alive and dead, in the hallway leading up to the property.

"They entered and found Mr Spiller within the bedroom area, his body had been dismembered deliberately and carefully and placed in plastic storage boxes together with items of clothing.
"Mr Spiller's head had been removed, cut off, and was found within another box within a filing cabinet in the bedroom.

"There was a significant degree of planning and premeditation as he dismembered the body.
"He used different tools including a small saw for different parts of the body and he used the heavier saw for other parts of the body including the spine.

"He then lied to cover his tracks and when he talked to his neighbour David Kiff he said his father was going away with his girlfriend."

Michael Vere-Hodge QC, defending, said this was a 'rare' case and the fatal incident was a 'very sudden event'.

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He told the court: "It is very rare for someone to kill their own father.
"We suggest the facts of the case point to a very sudden event where there was a complete lack of self control for whatever reason.

"We argue there was no motive whatsoever."
Robinson, now of Kingswinford, West Midlands, was arrested on June 18 last year - a day after Mr Spiller's girlfriend Glenys Molyneux reported her taxi driver partner was missing to police.
After his arrest he told police "Is this a joke?"

Giving evidence during the trial, Robinson said he headed for Glasgow with the Saw boxset because 'he wanted to get rid of them'.
The films, which ran in cinemas from 2004 until 2010, are the fifth-highest earning horror franchise of all time.


Struggling to recall in specific detail what he had done, Robinson said: "I had an image of attacking him with a Stanley knife.
"I can remember a great deal of anger and also being scared at one point. It was the most angry I have ever been."

Mr Spiller was identified by dental records as the body was so decomposed.
Judge Mr Justice Griffith Williams described the murder as an 'act of wickedness' and said Robinson was a 'deceitful' and 'manipulative young man'.

He said: "I have no doubt you planned to kill your father and planned an elaborate cover-up.
"The prosecution case, which I accept, is that the explanation for your decision to kill your father was a quarrel about the money you owed him.

"The absence of defence injuries proves you must have very quickly overpowered him and disabled him - more likely by cutting his throat.

"You then cut him elsewhere on his head and about his body ignoring his pleas for an ambulance and the help which would have saved his life.

"As you acknowledged when cross-examined, you watched him die.
"This was a cold-blooded murder but I cannot be sure the killing involved sadistic conduct.
"You have shown no remorse whatsoever."
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