Two men and a 15-year-old boy are to be sentenced today after beating a security guard to death.
Jay Byrne, of Leyland Road in Southport, Joseph Byrne of Linacre Road in Litherland, and the teenager who cannot be named for legal reasons will appear at Liverpool Crown Court today, Thursday. Joseph Byrne and his older sibling Jay Byrne previously pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Christopher Molloy, although both were cleared of murder after a trial, after beating the security guard to death in an early hours gang attack near to Bootle Strand.
The teenager was unanimously convicted of murder by the jury after three hours and 41 minutes of deliberations. Jurors previously heard an initial altercation between the parties erupted near to Burger King at around 12.45am on July 12 last year after Mr Molloy was accused of "touching" the teenage defendant's girlfriend.
