Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter The son of an elderly businessman allegedly the subject of a robbery plot said he wouldn't discuss his business affairs in the pub.
Five men deny involvement in an alleged plot to rob the 'very wealthy' retired director of a family firm of butchers, who is aged in his 80s.
Prosecutors allege there was a conspiracy to rob the man, with the defendants being said to have believed a 'huge sum of cash' would be at his home or business. READ MORE: Speeding driver killed his friend - then tried to blame the victim's brother Gary Betts, 57, Gerard Boyle, 52, Christopher Sammon, 32, his brother John Sammon 35, and Wayne Simmons, 39, all deny conspiracy to
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