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On July 3, 2012, a group of foreign students on holiday in Southsea made a disturbing discovery on the rocks at the beach. The group came across a torso wrapped in a pink shower curtain stuffed inside a plastic bin. Three days later police found a pair of legs at another spot on the beach after forensic teams were seen combing the area and taping off locations. The body would later turn out to be that of 30-year-old David Guy who lived in a camper van in Southsea. While his torso, legs and pelvis were found in two places, the rest of his body has never been recovered.
A Home Office pathologist was unable to say what the exact cause of death was, but said the marks on the torso indicated the man suffered a ‘sustained and violent assault’ sometime between June 30 and July 3, 2012.
David Guy was friends with a Southsea man called David Hilder, aged 46, who lived in a flat in Keelan Court, Richmond Road. The long-time friends were known to spend a lot of time together at Hilder’s flat and were said to have an up-and-down and volatile friendship. Hilder was known as ‘Big Dave’ and David Guy was known as ‘Little Dave’.
Hilder, who was a scrap metal dealer, was known locally as someone who rode around on a bike with a butcher's box attached to the handlebars. Witnesses said they had seen a man on such a bike in the area where the torso was found.
A Home Office pathologist was unable to say what the exact cause of death was, but said the marks on the torso indicated the man suffered a ‘sustained and violent assault’ sometime between June 30 and July 3, 2012.
David Guy was friends with a Southsea man called David Hilder, aged 46, who lived in a flat in Keelan Court, Richmond Road. The long-time friends were known to spend a lot of time together at Hilder’s flat and were said to have an up-and-down and volatile friendship. Hilder was known as ‘Big Dave’ and David Guy was known as ‘Little Dave’.
Hilder, who was a scrap metal dealer, was known locally as someone who rode around on a bike with a butcher's box attached to the handlebars. Witnesses said they had seen a man on such a bike in the area where the torso was found.