Overview
- A jury convicted Baxter of intentional strangulation or suffocation and unlawfully inflicting grievous bodily harm, and acquitted him of manslaughter.
- Sentenced at Minshull Street Crown Court, he restrained Michael Barron with rope and choked him with force that fractured bone and cartilage in the neck.
- Barron, 38, died after oxygen deprivation led to cardiac arrest following the encounter at Baxter’s Manchester flat.
- Judge Tina Landale cited Baxter’s encouragement of extreme intoxication and his own admission that he repeatedly choked Barron while he was tied face down.
- After noticing Barron unresponsive, Baxter searched online about breathing and potential legal consequences, ordered food, then called 999 and performed CPR.