Nottinghamshire detectives watched almost 800 hours of CCTV footage in their investigation into the murder of Michael Anton O'Connor. A jury at Nottingham Crown Court found nine defendants guilty of the 31-year-old’s murder and two people guilty of assisting an offender murder following a 33-week trial.
The group were jailed for a total of more than 260 years. Mr O’Connor, from Mapperley Park, Nottingham, was stabbed to death in The Meadows estate on November 10, 2021 in a pre-planned ambush by hired hit men.
The trial heard the killing was over a row between rival drug gangs but that Mr O’Connor had not been the main target, and that he was stabbed after being sent to broker a deal between the feuding gangs. The investigation that followed saw a large team of detectives work around the clock to uncover the full circumstances behind the brutal murder, with police officers and police staff also involved.
