A British man killed his father, cut up his 350-pound body and stuffed the pieces in plastic boxes he used as furniture, prosecutors said.
Nathan Robinson, 28, is accused of killing his father in May 2013 at the apartment they shared in Dorest, England, the BBC reported. Prosecutors told a Winchester Crown Court jury Robinson dismembered the body using a box cutter, hacksaw and saw before he neatly stored the remains inside plastic boxes- which he used as a TV stand.
Dorset police found the victim, 48-year-old taxi driver William Spiller, the next month after his girlfriend reported him missing when he did not respond to her texts.
"Dorset police attended the flat. They noted strong smells and flies, alive and dead, in the hallway leading up to the property," prosecutor Nigel Lickley said according to the UK's Press Association.
Spiller's remains were "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," Lickley said.
A neighbor who lived downstairs said he heard the father and son arguing before the murder.
"Do you expect me to keep subsidizing you for the rest of my life?" the father said according to the neighbor, the BBC reported. Prosecutors said Robinson owed his father money and that the father was struggling to pay his taxi insurance because he was supporting his son.
Hours after the argument, the neighbor saw "pink liquid" dripping through his bathroom ceiling. But when he went to Robinson's apartment to find out what it was, the defendant acted "very calm, just normal, very collected," the BBC reported.
Dismembering the victim, who was 6 feet 5 inches tall, "would have taken time and effort...it would have been a messy business," Lickley said according to the Press Association.
Robinson, who asked "Is this a joke?" when he was arrested, denied the murder charge against him but admitted to manslaughter under diminished capacity. His trial is ongoing.
