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Law student convicted of murdering cantankerous father
- 10th September 2010
After a six-week trial, a law student has been convicted of murdering his father after decomposed body parts were found in the back garden of the family home.
Mark Alexander, 22, killed his Egyptian born father, burying his body in concrete after intense pressure to study in the Sorbonne in Paris against his wishes. He wanted to live with his girlfriend in London. Alexander buried his father in the garden in Drayton Parslow, Buckinghamshire after neighbours noticed him taking delivery of concrete.
Samuel Alexander was reported missing by neighbours and police searched the property in February this year. His son was in the third year of a law and French degree at Kings College, London, when he was arrested but he denied any wrong-doing, claiming that his father was still alive and living with friends in London.
He denied murder, unlawfully disposing of his father’s body and two charges of perverting the course of justice. At his trial, he claimed someone else must have murdered his father who, the court was told, was a “cantankerous” man who was so careful with money he recorded every financial transaction he made in his diary. He now faces a life sentence.
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