# Butcher who “neatly severed” man’s body and hid remains in barrel found guilty

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/butcher-who-neatly-severed-mans-body-and-hid-remains-in-barrel-found-guilty/
- Published: 2026-07-28T14:41:34+00:00
- Updated: 2026-07-28T17:44:50+00:00
- Original publisher: The Star (Sheffield)
- Original article: https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/courts/body-in-the-barrel-murder-trial-jury-return-verdicts-8825995
- Topics: Art, Culture, Sheffield

## Key points

- Christopher Wright was convicted of murdering Richard Dyson.
- Dyson’s dismembered remains were found six years after he vanished.
- The case centred on a body hidden in a concrete-filled barrel.

## Summary

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.

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