A self confessed killer told a jury that he was seeking to implicate his girlfriend in an alleged murder because she had ‘thrown him under the bus’.
Michael Hillier admits shooting Liam Smith in the face outside his home in Wigan in November last year, before dousing him in acid.
He has claimed that his girlfriend Rachel Fulstow was also involved in the alleged murder, and helped to plot the killing. She denies this.
Jurors at Minshull Street Crown Court have heard that Ms Fulstow had been on a Tinder date with 38-year-old dad-of-two Mr Smith three years before the fatal shooting.
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