Murder by the Sea: Danny Dyke
Buried in concrete
Of course Dyke, aged 31, was breaking the law and his dealing could have harmed the lives of those who bought his merchandise. But his fate, at the hands of builder and drug dealer John Welsby, who bought wholesale from Dyke, and nightclub bouncer John Wilson was chilling and brutal.
In 1994 Dyke drove to Wilson’s home near Swansea, apparently to collect money he was owed. Dyke was attacked and strangled with a kettle flex.
He was buried in a shallow grave, but Welsby worried it would be found, so he reburied it in a concrete coffin. But this still wasn’t secure enough, so the body was dug up again and burned on a bonfire.
Some cases on Murder by the Sea revolve around jealousy, some are murders within families. This one was a sobering narrative of a man thinking he could be a player in an extremely dangerous world.
I watched this episode recently on CBS Reality but only caught part of it, I would have liked to see the whole episode but can’t find anywhere online to catch up. I guess it struck a chord with me as he was the same age as me, I also had knee cartilage problems from a sports injury (I avoided having mine removed though), will be training to be a physio, frequently cycle up the hills around Garnswllt and at one stage have been too involved with the wrong characters.
The whole story is very sad really. 3 mens lives lost/ ruined and that of their families… all for what would now be around £30,000 given inflation since 1994. You have to be seriously psychopathic/ desperate to murder someone for any amount of money let alone 30k.
The irony that Welsby and Wilson ended up seeking protection at Cockett police station because Dykes contacts were looking to recover their money following his disappearance.
I wonder if Danny Dyke even thought that they would murder him over such a comparatively small amount of money.
It’s a shame Dyke didn’t have any extra muscle with him that fateful day. Hopefully he would have returned to his true path before much more damage was done, the path that he would have spent years on end training for- helping people live a more active, pain free life through his day job.
CBS Reality repeats everything, so you should get another chance to catch this. And I agree – a sad story
Have a look on i player- ‘dark land’ season 2, there’s an episode on this case