Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter Miguel Reynolds had travelled down the M62 from Manchester to buy a car.
Instead of returning home with the Audi S1 he had agreed to purchase, Miguel, 21, was shot dead in a 'merciless execution' on the streets of Merseyside.
He didn't know he was being lured into a ruthless plot to rob him at gunpoint. Text messages showed the plan unfold as he made his way there.
Kyle Sanders, who helped arrange the robbery, texted his then girlfriend to say Miguel was 'leaving manny now'. "F****** el ha," she replied.
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