Christopher Wright was found guilty of murdering Richard Dyson, whose body was dismembered and concealed in a concrete-filled barrel on a Barnsley farm after he disappeared in 2019. The verdict brings a resolution to a case in which Mr Dyson’s remains were discovered nearly six years later, following a long-running police investigation.

Prosecutors said Wright shot Mr Dyson and then cut up his body before hiding it in a barrel on neighbouring land; the remains were found in July 2025. Wright had denied murder and related offences, while his co-defendant, Karl Schwalbe, faced an allegation of helping to conceal the crime; the article reports the jury’s verdicts following their trial at Sheffield Crown Court.