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Christopher Guest More Jr, 43, is on trial accused of murdering 44-year-old Brian Waters at a cannabis farm located in a Cheshire farmhouse in 2003.
Mr Waters, a cannabis dealer, was tortured and killed over a drugs debt, jurors at Chester Crown Court have heard. He was killed in a disused cow shed at Burnt House Farm in Tabley, near Knutsford, on June 19, 2003.
Another man, Suleman Razak, was tortured at the same time. Jurors have been told that John Wilson, of Glossop, James Raven, of Radcliffe, and Otis
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