Father murder trial jury retire

May 21 2008 by Chloe Griffiths, Liverpool Daily Post

Michael Wright (158)

THE jury in the trial of four men accused of shooting a father three times in the head have retired to consider their verdict.

Michael “Mickey” Wright was gunned down in “cold-blood” as he sat in his car eating a takeaway at Croxteth’s Stonedale Retail Park on the East Lancs Road.

He died hours later in hospital.

David Hibbs-Turner, 28, of Sherwoods Lane, Fazakerley, his next-door neighbour Mark Richardson, 24, Philip Woolley, 19, of Roderick Road, Walton and Paul Hollands, 19, of Portlemouth Road, Croxteth, are all charged with his murder and have been facing a four-week trial at Liverpool Crown Court.

Yesterday the murder jury were sent out to consider their verdict.

They have been told by the prosecution Hibbs-Turner ordered the slaying on December 8, 2006.

The jury will continue their deliberations today.