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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Ellen Kirwin

Third murder suspect named after teen Michael Toohey killed

A third man has been charged with the murder of Michael Toohey in Liverpool city centre.

The teenager, of Oil Street, died from multiple injuries after being attacked at an internet café, on London Road, at around 5.50pm on Saturday 16 April. Altogether police have charged three people on suspicion of murder and arrested 12 in connection with the murder.

Kieron Williams, 28 years, of no fixed address, was charged with murder and will appear at Wirral Magistrates Court today, on Friday, July 1. Two other men have previously been charged with murder. They are Michael Williams, 24 years, of Carlake Grove and Anthony Williams, 31, of Hillbrook Drive, Walton.

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A total of eight people – as well as the two charged – had previously been arrested on suspicion of Michael Toohey’s murder. They are:

• A 20-year-old man from Kirkby has been conditionally bailed
• A 14-year-old male from Liverpool has been conditionally bailed
• A 15-year-old male from Liverpool has been conditionally bailed
• A 33-year-old man of no fixed address has been conditionally bailed
• A 14-year-old male from Liverpool has been conditionally bailed
• A 25-year-old man from Kirkby has been conditionally bailed
• A 25-year-old man from Kirkby has been conditionally bailed
• A 19-year-old man from Kirkby has been conditionally bailed

Four people have been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender including three men aged 27, 19 and 54, from Liverpool and a 34-year-old woman from Fazakerley. The men have been released under investigation and the woman remains on bail

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