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A British man living in the US is accused of murdering his fiancee's dad and encasing the body in concrete.

The victim's family want Marcus Ricketts, 24, to face the death penalty if found guilty of fatally stabbing William "Scotty" Goldin, 59.

Ricketts, from Birmingham, West Mids., moved to the US in 2017 to live with his lover Chasity Hill after they met while playing video games on Xbox Live.

He has allegedly confessed to stuffing Mr Goldin's body into a large drum and entombing it in concrete before burying it in a woodland behind the victim's garden in the state of Alabama.

Despite Mr Goldin's family calls for Ricketts to be executed if guilty, a prosecutor has said he has no plans to seek the death penalty.

Ricketts has pleaded not guilty to murdering the dad-of-four, whose body was found near his home in the town of Valley Head in July 2018.

Mr Goldin's brother Richard, 66, alleged to the Sun: “What kind of a person takes another’s life? That’s terribly wrong – nobody has that right. Nobody deserves to have that happen to them.

“My brother was trying to motivate Mr Ricketts to become something other than the scumbag that he is. Instead, he ambushed him, stabbed him, killed him and then buried him.”

Ricketts avoided a charge of capital murder, which is punishable by death.

Alabama's primary method of execution is lethal injection, but a death row prisoner can opt to die in the electric chair instead.

Ricketts' alleged signed confession, filed in court papers, claims he was scared of Mr Goldin, a former mechanic, because he was "abusive" and threatened him with a machete.

The Brit allegedly said: “He told me several times that he would kill me.”

He claims he hid the killing from his partner.

Ricketts claims he stabbed Mr Goldin in the chest in self-defence after his fiancee's dad accused the Brit of stealing 'spice' from him. In Britain, the synthetic cannabis is known as a "zombie drug".

Ricketts allegedly wrote: “I had started bringing a knife to bed because I was afraid. Scotty started hitting me with the baseball bat and I went into a rage.

“I stabbed him once in the chest on the upper right side. Then once in the back over his left shoulder. And finally in his side and I remember hearing a pop.

“I came back to myself and I was sitting in the living room with blood on my hands. I then looked down the hallway and saw his body and freaked out a bit.”

He allegedly confessed to stuffing Mr Goldin's body into a plastic drum, encasing it in concrete and burying it in a wooded area more than a week later.

Mr Goldin's remains were found two months later after police were tipped off.

Mirror

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