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Liam Wright, who has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Carl Loughran (Image: newcaste chronicle) A dedicated team of detectives from our Major Crime Team are working on this investigation, and I would like to reassure the community that they are not looking for anyone else in connection with it. Rachel, who lived at home with her mother and brothers and sisters in Consett had received a telephone call from Thompson asking her to come round to 'help fix the washing machine'. Despite all this confusing and contradictory evidence, things looked grim for Peterson from the outset. In his former role as a contrarian liberal columnist for the Durham Herald-Sun, Peterson criticized members of local law enforcement as well as District Attorney James Hardin — a circumstance which later suggested to Peterson that the prosecution was eager for revenge. For his defense, Peterson hired esteemed trial lawyer David Rudolf. But police were informed and were handed a Poundland receipt that the victim had found dropped on the floor of the shop.You just think; 'why would anybody want to do that to him? He was just your everyday guy. The whole thing drives us mad, all these years of just wondering, why?" Detectives have always believed Paul's murder was pre-planned, and organised and executed by a number of people. Former inmate Paul Rush was outside HMP Northumberland with almost 1,000 diazepam tablets and cannabis when he was rumbled. He also admitted an unrelated assault occasioning actual bodily harm, which happened in June last year at the Bubbles bar in Ashington.The kidnap offence happened while he was subject to a deferred sentence for the assault outside Bubbles. Damion McGann, 39, of Imeary Street and and Lance McGann, 32, of Copley Avenue, both South Shields, pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding after prosecutors dropped the initial charge of wounding with intent. They also both admitted possessing an offensive weapon.

We immediately began to investigate the new leads, and conducted in-person interviews with Billy Wayne Davis in September 2019, October 2020, and August 2021,” Watauga County Sheriff Len Hagaman said. Without solid leads, the case went cold. Some people theorised that the family got caught up in a car dealership scam gone bad. Others speculated that Green Berets – in town for a ski demonstration – unleashed their pent-up bloodlust on the innocent family.

We also believe there were another three people involved in Julie's death, we have a number of documents giving us information and intelligence of the people involved and we are well aware of what took place that tragic day.