A brother and sister who gathered two friends and set off to hunt down and kill a man after a row over text messages lost an appeal against their murder convictions.
Siblings Aaron and Melissa Stubbs vowed to teach Melissa's ex-boyfriend, Warren Glover, "a lesson" after Mr Glover sent abusive and threatening messages to her and their parents when she told him they could not resume their relationship. Aaron Stubbs also recruited two friends, Stephen Strutt and Peter Walker, to join them and the gang-of-four set off from their home in Manchester and drove to St Helens to look for Mr Glover, even stopping for beers on the way.
The 33-year-old was found unconscious in French Street, St Helens at around 10.15pm, on June 13, 2020, and died from a catastrophic brain injury three weeks later in hospital. Melissa Stubbs, then 30, Aaron Stubbs, also 30, their friend Strutt, 39, and Strutt's brother-in-law Walker, 31, were later charged with "joint enterprise" murder and convicted after a six week trial at Liverpool Crown Court.
