A man from Rochester has been jailed for helping dump the body of a man killed and butchered after being forced to perform humiliating “Jackass-style stunts”.

Neill Buchel, 39, was beaten to death by Elvis Kwiatkowski and Chas Quye, both 36, in Essex.

The pair then sawed his corpse into 10 pieces and enlisted friends Bradley Andison, 47, of Villa Road, Rochester, and Scott Hunt, 42, to dispose of the remains.

Andison’s four-wheel-drive Toyota was used to take Mr Buchel’s dismembered body to White Hart lakes in Dagenham, where it was wrapped in a duvet and weighed down with stones.

However, some remains were discovered by a young fisherman and a subsequent police search uncovered the rest.

"Neill Buchel was rendered virtually helpless by drink and was a very soft target for the brutal and cowardly attack..." - Sally O’Neill, prosecuting

Kwiatkowski, from Hertfordshire, and Quye, from Dagenham, were handed life sentences for the murder and ordered to serve a minimum of 21 years.

Andison was jailed for four years and Hunt, from Dagenham, for five for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, at Blackfriars Crown Court.

Mr Justice Spencer said in his sentencing: “This was a brutal and callous murder. Neill Buchel was a harmless and inoffensive man.

“The precise circumstances in which Mr Buchel ultimately met his violent death later that night will forever remain unclear.

“You subjected him to a brutal and merciless attack, stamped on him and kicked him repeatedly with such force that you caused 25 separate fractures to his ribs, breaking some in more than one place.

“You desecrated Neill Buchel’s body by dismembering, methodically cut and sawed it up into 10 pieces to maximise the chances of it never being found.”

Mr Buchel, whose grandfather was a fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain, had been drinking on the night of March 13 last year before going to Quye’s home.

Kwiatkowski, who he had never met, was part of the torture which followed, including being hit around the head with a mallet and full beer cans.

Mr Buchel, Quye and Hunt were friends and often filmed each other doing bizarre challenges in the style of TV series Jackass but Mr Buchel typically bore the brunt of the injuries.

Footage from a different night shown in court saw Mr Buchel being shot at with a BB gun while wearing women’s underwear and rubbing chilli peppers on his genitals.

Sally O’Neill, prosecuting, said: “Neill Buchel was rendered virtually helpless by drink and was a very soft target for the brutal and cowardly attack at the hands of those who professed to be his friends.”

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