BRISTOL: DOUBLE MURDER CONVICTION FOR ABATTOIR WORKERS WHO HURT VICTIMS IN 'HOUSE OF HORROR'

Two abattoir workers who slaughtered their victims to death by repeatedly stabbing them have been convicted.

Ionut-Valentin Boboc, 22, and Jacob-Bebe Chers, 46, repeatedly stabbed victims Denzil McKenzie and Fahad Pramanik in Bristol on 11 September 2021, in what the police described in court as "a house of horror".

Police said the bodies had been mutilated and reflected the killers' butchery work and a post-mortem examination showed that both men died from multiple stab injuries.

Boboc and Chers, both from Hillfields, had met Mr McKenzie, 56, through their work at an abattoir, where their job involved making incisions in the bellies of pigs. The men would occasionally drink together at his house.


Mr Pramanik, 27, had been visiting Mr McKenzie from London on the night of the murders and investigators believe he was at the "wrong place at the wrong time".

Boboc admitted to murdering Denzil at an earlier hearing and was also found guilty of murdering Fahad.

The bodies of the two men were found at Denzil's house in Wood Street, Bristol, after emergency services received a 999 call from a relative of Boboc on Sunday 12 September 2021, where a murder investigation was launched by the Major Crime Investigation Team (MCIT).

Chers denied both murders but was convicted by a jury following a month-long trial at Bristol Crown Court.

Their sentencing will take place on Wednesday 21 December 2022.

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