South Yorkshire man who killed lodger and hid body in concrete gets 35-year sentence

A seventy-three-year-old South Yorkshire farmer has been sentenced to a minimum of thirty-five years for murdering his lodger and hiding the dismembered remains in a concrete-filled barrel. Christopher Wright shot Richard Dyson, fifty-five, in November twenty nineteen. Per The Guardian, Dyson had been living in his car on Wright's farm and was doing jobs for him when they had a falling out. The body remained concealed for more than five years before Wright's conviction in July.

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