Two people were cleared
Nine people have been found guilty of the murder of 31-year-old Nottingham businessman Michael Anton O'Connor. After two days of the judge summing up the case, 10 jurors - five men and five women - went away to deliberate in private at Nottingham Crown Court on Wednesday at 10.40am.
Verdicts were delivered this afternoon, Monday, June 12. Those found guilty unanimously of murder were: Benjamin Taylor, 37, of Monton Road, Eccles, Manchester; Leonard Ward, 41, of Marwood Road, Carlton; Joseph Boscombe, 39, of Rostherne Avenue, Manchester; Joshua Agboola, 28, of Leven Grove, Darwen, Blackburn; and Carla McGuire, 51, of Wilford Crescent West, The Meadows.
Also convicted of murder were: Jerone Sheard, 30, of Wilford Crescent West, The Meadows; Michael Mingoes, 20, of Powell Street, Manchester; Paula Usherwood, 37, of Central Avenue, Beeston; and Michael McGuire, 34, of Wilford Crescent West, The Meadows. Rebecca Bell, 36, of Loughrigg Close, The Meadows, and Curtis Sheard, 23, of Wilford Crescent West, The Meadows, were acquitted of murder.
The case comes after Mr O'Connor died after he was stabbed once with a knife in the chest, which went into his heart, in Wilford Crescent West, The Meadows, on November 20, 2021.Defendant Kerry-Anne Shepherd, 34, of Plantagenet Street, St Ann's, was found guilty of assisting an offender. Gemma Fearon, 37, of Dean Bank Close, Bollington, Macclesfield, was found guilty of assisting an offence knowing or believing it was going to be committed.
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