Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter An undercover TV researcher fled the country to start a new life after the brutal torture and murder of father-of-two at a cannabis farm, a court has heard.
Christopher Guest More Jr, 43, is accused of the murder of cannabis dealer Brian Waters, 44, who was tortured and killed at a Cheshire farmhouse over a drugs debt, the court heard.
On Tuesday, a jury at Chester Crown Court heard Mr Waters was killed in a disused cow shed at Burnt House Farm in Tabley, near Knutsford, on June 19 2003 and another man, Suleman Razak, was tortured at the same time.
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