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Thursday 7 August 2014

How brother of EastEnders actress murdered and chopped her body into pieces

On March 1st 2012, former EastEnders actress Gemma McCluskie, 29, disappeared from her home. About 10 days later, it was discovered that her own older brother, Tony McCluskie (pictured with her above) killed her after an argument at the home they shared, chopped up her body, put the body parts in a suitcase and dumped her in the canal. Their older brother talks about the incident for the first time since it happened.
As Danny McCluskie watched the grainy CCTV footage his world crumbled. It showed the unthinkable, the one thing every part of him had screamed could not be possible. His brother Tony carrying a heavy suitcase containing the mutilated body parts of their beloved baby sister Gemma.
The footage proved beyond doubt that Tony had killed the former EastEnders actress in cold blood, chopped her up then disposed of her like putting out the trash.
For Danny one thing made it even more incomprehensible – Tony had put his arms around him when Gemma disappeared and assuring him they would keep looking.
Danny with Gemma
“When I look back at it now I just think, you absolute scumbag, you doing that, you had us on the runabout, looking for our sister, you knew full well what you’d done to her,” says Danny, 39, speaking in depth for the first time since the 2012 murder.
“They showed me that bit of evidence. That just persuaded it for me and I went mad. He’s a monster for what he done to my little sister.”
Tony was mostly unemployed, drifting between building jobs and cleaning windows. He was a heavy cannabis user, smoking strong skunk “from morning until night”.

On March 1 Gemma vanished, prompting a police search. Two days later her butchered torso was found in the capital’s Regent’s Canal. Her limbs, in bin bags, were found a week later. Although her head remained missing for six months, she was identifiable from a tattoo on her back.

There was no reason to suspect Tony. He may have been dope-addled but his family had never known him to be violent. Psychologists now believe he was jealous of Gemma’s success, but at the time no one believed him capable of murder.

In the early days he joined in the search, comforting Danny and their separated parents, dad Anthony and mum Pauline.

But the sick truth was that he had killed her after a bitter argument. In his drug-fuelled haze he had gone to sleep and let the bath overflow. It was the last straw for Gemma, who told him to get out of the family home.

Then she went to see their mother in hospital, leaving Tony to stew. She returned to find him in a murderous rage. Still high on drugs, he hit her over the head with a blunt object, fracturing her skull in three places with at least two heavy blows. She died from a bleed to the brain.
Then, clinically and coldly, he tried to chop up his sister’s body with a knife. When that failed went out for a meat cleaver, rolls of bin liners and cleaning chemicals.

Killer Tony
The next morning, with the body still in the house, he began a cover up, texting his girlfriend: “Morning, sorry crashed out last night. Woke up too late to get back to you. Feeling a bit better today.”
He even sent a text to his dead sister saying he had been to visit their mum.
He wrote: “Hi Gem, letting you know I’m at the hospital. Mum is doing really good and the doctors are pleased with her. Going to look at the throat and swallowing today. Love ya xx.”
He had never once told Gemma he loved her in a message before.

Later that night that he stuffed her mangled body into a suitcase, called a cab and dumped her in the canal.

Brother Danny says: “He took her life away. She didn’t even hit 30 years old, she didn’t get married, she didn’t have kids, he took all that away from her.”


When Tony told the family Gemma hadn’t come home they assumed she was staying with a friend. Danny recalls: “But on the Sunday morning me and a friend met up with Tony and got some pictures developed of Gemma. We took them down to Bethnal Green Police Station.”

Speaking on tonight’s Channel 5 crime documentary Countdown to Murder, he recalls it was difficult to get sense out of Tony. “But I just thought it was just him just stoned out of his nut again,” he says.
Increasingly worried, the family stepped distributed photos and posters and Tony joined in. But two days later police found the first body part in the canal.

Tony McCluskie dragging a large bag into the boot of a taxi
Danny recalls Tony’s reaction. “Out of nowhere he walks in and puts his arms round us and he starts saying, please don’t let it be Gemma. I’ll never forget it.”
But their sister was immediately identifiable because of her tattoo.
“That broke me,” says Danny. “I turned round and went to the police officer, I said, ‘You’d better catch whoever did this’. And he kept saying to me, ‘I promise, we’ll catch him, we’ll catch him’.”

It was left to Danny to tell their mother in a moment that still haunts him.
“I ended up breaking down, crying. I was just overwhelmed. I’ve just found out it was my sister and now I’ve had to go and break the news to my mother.
“She’s laying there in hospital, you know, she’s just had a big operation.”

Loyal Danny refused to believe Tony had anything to do with it, even when police questioned him for a second time. “I said to him, you look me in the eye and you put your hand on your heart you ain’t done this to my sister?” he recalls. “And he just said to me, ‘The police are fitting me up’.
My head was all over the place, you know. It was like, this ain’t right. I phoned the police and I said to them, ‘You’d better show me some evidence it’s him, otherwise he’s in that jail, he’s in that jail suffering’.”

The damning CCTV showing McCluskie putting the heavy suitcase in the back of a minicab was all the evidence anyone needed. Ten days after her disappearance Tony was charged with Gemma’s murder.
Danny says he felt only one thing on seeing his brother in the dock. “I just thought, I wanna smash his face in. Because he was guilty,” he says.

Source: UK Mirror

55 comments:

Alloy Chikezie said...

People can be so wicked, he has a demonic heart to have done a thing like that


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Ceeflo said...

The darkness is vivid in his eyes! Reprehensible! Kill your own sister just like that !

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Bishop Dammy said...

This killing of a thing has now become a norm.. Its happening everywhere! End time if u ask me..2Pet 3:1-18. BishopDammy#

Julz Cakes said...

What cannabis and tobacco can do. He derseves to be butchered and fed to dogs.

Steveosky 4 Real. said...

Wonders shall never cease to end. Am just dumbfounded after reading this piece. Don't know what to qualify this bastard with.. He should be fed to the dogs for dinner.. SMH

Unknown said...

How can somebody do that to another human, talk more of your own blood sister. The heart of men is indeed evil and desperately wicked.

Anonymous said...

WOW...became so afraid after reading this story.
Am sure the sis said something about him being a failure that got him really mad... The devil saw it as an opportunity to perpetrate his evil act and toyed with the dude's mind...now he MUST rot in jail.
I hate brothers who like to beat up their younger sis just bcos they think they are stronger.

Unknown said...

Awwwwww, how terrible... Tony must have bn possessed otherwise i wonder how on earth man cn b so unkind to man moreso ur own blood... God help us

Anonymous said...

@Ceeflo, I think you speak very well. I like the way you comment, you sound intelligent. We want more of your type on this blog, not idle fellows who think they must talk. Its unfortunate what the world is turning into/ Brother killing sister, son killing father, the list goes on. We need God in our lives and definitely a better standard of living to reduce the frustrations in the Land. Doesn't matter where, Africa, America, Asia, we all need peace in our hearts.

OMG!WOMAN said...

How more evil could one person be .

Unknown said...

End time is here indeed

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

britain is now worse than the us...my kids met some kids from london at the pool and they were so mean, rude and bullyish, britain has changed from what it used to be..children are now thuggish, gangsters, mean spirited and what not especially those in brixton, camberwell, and all those low income neighborhoods..

Unknown said...

Pure wickedness

NOELLA said...

2 Peter 3:1-18New International Version (NIV)
The Day of the Lord

3 Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking. 2 I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.

3 Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4 They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” 5 But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water. 6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. 7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. 9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.[a]

11 Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives 12 as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming.[b] That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. 13 But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.

14 So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him. 15 Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. 16 He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

17 Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position. 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.

Anonymous said...

Wts a wicked broder to hav in de family. Heartless human being......... Hia we r @ ur mercy LORD

Anonymous said...

Am very sure...he is been possess might lookn at his face


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Anonymous said...

I pray this epidemic comes to an end ASAP. The term 'EBOLA' scares the hell out of me.
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Unknown said...

So bad for a man and his own sister,,who will shed his own blood too bad. Irebisibrown@yahoo.com.sg

Anonymous said...

U no see as him dey like pusy own full of darkness let him butchered 2,abi my pple no b so bcos he dat is kill by d sword mst die by d sword nonsense wicked n evil generation

Anonymous said...

This world is a wicked place.. Poor girl.. Chai ! Tony , u shall never No peace. For sure ! U're cane's blood. Jealous of ur sister .

Anonymous said...

Heinous!!! People are getting "wickedly wicked and badly bad" stop smoking marijuana....one of the weapons of destruction. God help us and our children IJN

Anonymous said...

Evil in the hearts of men...

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Xmoke said...

"For Danny one thing made it even more incomprehensible – Tony had put his arms around him when Gemma disappeared and assuring him they would keep looking"
Gory! He thought the search would last long...

Olameedey2in1@yahoo.com said...

Iont blame him one bit....dahz wat abuse of drugs n all sorts does 2 psychos dah make use of d shit.

Unknown said...

These dude need to die by hanging and Electrocution!!!
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GREEN said...

BIBLE SAID AND NATIONS SHALL RISE AGAINST NATIONS, FATHER AGAINST SON, BROTHER AGAINST SISTER.
SO MY PEOPLE DO NOT ALLOW URSELVES TO BE USED BY DEVIL.
SUBMIT UR SELVES TO GOD

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Unknown said...

OMG... Your own Blood???

ary said...

it is one thing to kill a person but to dismember them is just plain cold bloodedness

ary said...

it is one thing to kill a person but to dismember them is just plain cold bloodedness

Olumide Abiodun said...

There are lot more sick people in the world than you can imagine.


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Unknown said...

I am grubbed up with fear as I read this article, some people can be so Carlos. 'jealousy' the root of all evil.

Unknown said...

hmmmmmmm......

Anonymous said...

Na Dexter this guy dey watch tight. Meat cleaver kwa! cleaning chemicals! ur own sister! it is well

Eagle Eyes Media said...

This story has only increased my love for my sisters!

Anonymous said...

I always look forward to your comments Cee. I wish Wilhemmina Moses could borrow a leaf from you.
Lin.

Anonymous said...

na wetin igbo dey cause, desist from igbo! igbo n' agbaka mmadu isi!!

Unknown said...

Stupid goat Tony.

Anonymous said...

What a world

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Dee Brown said...

Kai!!!...God u create oooo.

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Anonymous said...

Wicked Brother, They Should Kill Him †Ñ’ƹ Way He Killed Her Too. (Linda's Man)

Anonymous said...

So heartless, it aint good takn drugs. Whether broda or no broda JUSTICE must b served


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Anonymous said...

Hmmmmm.........Wot a world!!!
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Unknown said...

OMG! Dis is really sad,Ur own Blood??

Anonymous said...

i smoke skunk n it doesnt put negative tots in ya head ok, d bastard z a junky. Where z he nw? Hope in jail? FJ CRUISE commenting via Nokia N78

Anonymous said...

Santana nko? It's "callous"

chibaby helen said...

What a wicked world, what of dt word dt says blood is thicker than water gush I can't belive he could do that to his own blood dt is thicker than water, God will judge u.

Anonymous said...

This is such a personal story to read. I acknowledge with a lot of respect the courage of him to talk about this. I have brothers, many of them. They treat me with so much warmth and affection, even protection.

Has the world really gotten this heinous?

Let justice be served.

God heal our souls and make us whole again. Amen

APPLE said...

NAH WAO!!!!!

Unknown said...

..and to think that she was his blood sister!
The devil used him.

Anonymous said...

Skunk is not regular weed. It has been cut and mixed with other stuff sometimes a little coke. It's a crazy trip and way more addictive than ganja. Its imported from europe and has been available in Nigeria for only a few years. Anyone who likes to blaze please stay away from sk. It gives a strange high with paranoia and irrational behaviour. It shouldn't be smoked everyday like ganja. Overtime it'll fuck even the Johnny blazes up. BroJo

Anonymous said...

Kids from the hood are bad everywhere. London rocks.

Unknown said...

Haba his blood sister!!!

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