Overview
- A jury found Oliver Connelly, Sidney Bashford, Michael Charville, Ryan Moore and a 17-year-old guilty of murder after a six-week trial.
- The court heard Connelly, Bashford and Moore forced entry with knives and machetes as the teen kept watch outside and Charville waited as the getaway driver.
- Leon Palfreeman, 18, was acquitted of murder.
- CCTV and forensic evidence showed a forced entry and an attack just inside the flat, with the victim dying from severe blood loss and possibly an air embolism.
- Police said the violence followed a dispute over Bashford’s stolen electric bike, and Bashford later fled via Ireland to France before being extradited to the UK.