A MAN has been found guilty of murder – but his victim's head and arms are still missing.
It is now hoped Peter Healy may reveal where the dismembered body parts are for the sake of the dead man's family.
Healy will be sentenced to life in prison on Monday for killing his ex-girlfriend's new partner Kevin Kennedy.
Mr Justice Flaux will determined the minimum length of the life sentence Healy will serve before consideration can given for parole.
Mr Kennedy was discovered in a shallow grave on land between Rossington Road and Burrows Court, Sneinton, on August 8 last year.
Healy's former partner, Tara Swift, was cleared of murdering him – but convicted with Healy of perverting the course of justice.
After the unanimous verdicts were delivered, prosecutor Timothy Spencer QC told the judge the case had caused acute distress to Mr Kennedy's family – particularly because parts of his body have not been found.
There was hope the court proceedings may shed light on where the missing parts were but Mr Spencer said: "That hope has been dashed. They will never know where they are."
After the hearing, Chief Inspector Rob Griffin told how police went to great lengths searching for 50-year-old Mr Kennedy.
A finger-tip search of a landfill site in Newark took six weeks and turned up nothing.
Locations near to the shallow grave where Mr Kennedy lay were examined but all efforts were in vain.
"The only person that knows where the missing body parts are is Peter Healy and unless he tells us they will never be found," said DCI Griffin.
"It is a particularly distressing case for the family."
Swift told police that Healy had burst into her then-home in Rossington Road, Sneinton, attacked Mr Kennedy and punched her when she tried to stop him.
Healy, 51, of Lord Nelson Street, Sneinton, put a chair on Mr Kennedy's head and described him looking like a "horror movie".
Swift, 41, now of West Street, Leicester, claimed Healy was swearing and accused Mr Kennedy of "having sex with his missus".
She said after the attack she left with Healy but he later returned to "clean up".
Mr Kennedy, who had been staying at Rossington Road and the London Road Project in Nottingham, was discovered dismembered on August 8, three weeks after he was attacked.
Dilute blood in a back room at Rossington Road was consistent with an account that water was thrown over him.
Heavy bloodstaining on a mattress upstairs indicated he had lain there for some time and was partially dismembered there.
A pathologist who examined Mr Kennedy's body could not find an obvious cause of death.
He appeared to have been decapitated with a knife and a saw, Nottingham Crown Court had heard.
