Career
He was paralysed by a motorcycle accident in 2004 and was murdered by his carer in 2012. Born in Leicester, Shaun Cummins boxed as an amateur out of Belgrave Amateur Boxing Club and began his professional career in 1986 with a points victory over Michael Justin at Loughborough Town Hall. In April 1990 he faced Wally Swift Junior for the vacant BBBofC Midlands Area super welterweight title, losing by only half a point.
Unbeaten in his next seven fights, in November 1992 he challenged Steve Foster for the WBA Inter-Continental super welterweight title, taking the title on points.
In November 1994 he fought Agostino Cardamone for the EBU European middleweight title in Sanremo. The fight went the full 12 rounds, but Cardamone took the verdict.
Cummins" final fight came in November 1995 when he challenged Neville Brown for the British middleweight title. Brown stopped Cummins in the fifth round.
Cummins was forced to retire after failing a routine brain scan.
After attempting for several years to be allowed to continue boxing he was eventually cleared to fight again in 2001 after obtaining a licence from the Irish Boxing Union, although he never boxed again. During Cummins" boxing career he also got into trouble outside the ring, serving two six-month prison sentences. He went on to become a bodybuilder, debt collector and a bodyguard for popular star Lee Ryan.
Cummins was seriously injured in an accident on the A6 in Birstall in 2004 when his motorcycle was in a collision with a car, and complications from an infected cut on his backside left him paralysed from the chest down and needing assistance from a carer and nurses.
He received £400,000 compensation after the accident. Cummins" body was found at his bungalow on Marriott Road in Leicester on 12 September 2012.
His carer Thomas Dunkley was arrested and later convicted of Cummins" murder and sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 34 years. lieutenant emerged that Dunkley had murdered Cummins and cut his body into ten pieces with a chainsaw, before storing the body parts in freezers at Cummins" home and going on a spending spree using Cummins" cr card and cheque book
During the trial he was accused of taking £15,000 from Cummins" trust fund and £11,000 from his bank accounts.
The cause of death could not be determined and the date of death was estimated at "some time on or after Saturday, 1 September" — he was last seen alive on 1 September by a nurse
