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A farmer who shot his lodger and dismembered his body has been jailed for 35 years.
Richard Dyson, 55, disappeared in November 2019, but his remains, kept inside a concrete-filled barrel in a trailer on a farm near Barnsley, were not discovered for nearly six years.
A trial at Sheffield Crown Court heard how Christopher Wright killed Dyson when he tried to steal a gun from him before disposing of the body with the help of his childhood friend Karl Schwalbe.
Last month, Wright, 73, was convicted of murder and Schwalbe, 72, was found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
Wright, a former butcher, was also found guilty of conspiracy to pervert the justice, preventing a lawful burial and six firearms offences.
Schwalbe was jailed for three years for perverting the course of justice.
Bethany Dainty, Dyson's daughter, said her life had become a "living nightmare".
She had issued numerous appeals for help tracing her father in the years he was missing.
In a victim impact statement read to the court, she said: "Someone watched me suffering for years and said nothing. That level of cruelty is impossible for me to understand."
