Manchester Evening News
UK · 39 mins ago
The New Year's Eve gathering that ended in murder
It should have been a night of celebration and socialising to bring in the New Year. But just minutes before the clock struck midnight last New Year’s Eve, a gathering in a first-floor flat in Bury became the scene of a horrific murder.It was there, in Anthony Junior Murray’s home, that he murdered his sister’s boyfriend Joe Burton. Joe was only 23 and had a young daughter. Their future together has been torn apart, and his family have been left bereft.That night has created a lifelong feeling of grief and depression and of a gaping hole within the family. Addressing Murray, Joe’s mother Janette Keyworth said, in a statement read on her behalf in court: “Never in a million years did I think I would ever have to attend this trial because of your actions.Click here to hear the latest from Ma
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