Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A gunman who shot dead a rapper from Manchester has been jailed for life.
Liam Watson, who murdered Miguel Reynolds after he was lured to Merseyside to buy a stolen Audi S1, will have to serve at least 30 years.
After he arrived with a friend, Miguel, 21, was ordered to hand over £2,000 and go back home. Miguel, an aspiring rapper known as Lil Gwop Boy, was shot to the neck at close range by Watson, after he chased down his robber in Netherton, Merseyside.
Watson, 32, had fired a 'warning shot' moments earlier. Manchester's courts are some of the busiest in the country with a vast array of cases heard every week.
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