Two gun thugs who carried out the "public execution" of a dad-of-two were today found guilty of murder.
Patrick Boyle, 26, was shot dead in a Huyton cul-de-sac last summer. Prosecutors said Rueben Murphy was the gunman on an electric bike who showed his victim "no mercy", after arguing with an associate of Mr Boyle's earlier that day.
Self-confessed drug dealer Murphy said at the time Mr Boyle was gunned down he was in a back garden in another part of Huyton, "off me head on ket". The 26-year-old denied knowing or shooting Mr Boyle and insisted: "I might have sold drugs in the past, but I'm not a killer."
