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Fifth man guilty of biker killing | Fifth man guilty of biker killing |
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Another man has been found guilty of the murder of a biker as he rode home from a festival in Warwickshire. | Another man has been found guilty of the murder of a biker as he rode home from a festival in Warwickshire. |
Dean Taylor, 47, of Coventry, was also convicted of a firearms offence. | Dean Taylor, 47, of Coventry, was also convicted of a firearms offence. |
He had denied murdering Gerry Tobin, 35, a Hells Angel of Mottingham, south-east London, who was shot on the M40 after leaving the Bulldog Bash event. | |
Three other men - all members of rival biker gang The Outlaws - have already been found guilty of murder, while a fourth admitted the killing earlier. | Three other men - all members of rival biker gang The Outlaws - have already been found guilty of murder, while a fourth admitted the killing earlier. |
The jury was sent home for the night without reaching verdicts over murder charges against two more men. | |
Two bullets | |
Mr Tobin, who was originally from Canada, was shot on 12 August last year after leaving the festival at Long Marston airfield, near Stratford-upon-Avon. | |
The trial has heard he was targeted for being a "fully patched", or fully initiated, Hells Angel. | The trial has heard he was targeted for being a "fully patched", or fully initiated, Hells Angel. |
Hells Angel Gerry Tobin was shot on the M40 last year | Hells Angel Gerry Tobin was shot on the M40 last year |
Two bullets were fired at the biker from a Rover car which pulled up alongside him on the M40. | |
The jury had heard Taylor owned a motorbike shop in Coventry which had been used as The Outlaws' meeting place. | |
Simon Turner, 41, of Nuneaton, and Dane Garside, 42, of Coventry, were convicted of Mr Tobin's murder on Monday. | Simon Turner, 41, of Nuneaton, and Dane Garside, 42, of Coventry, were convicted of Mr Tobin's murder on Monday. |
Garside was also found guilty of a firearms charge. | Garside was also found guilty of a firearms charge. |
Malcolm Bull, 53, of Milton Keynes, has also been convicted of murder and a firearms charge. | Malcolm Bull, 53, of Milton Keynes, has also been convicted of murder and a firearms charge. |
Sean Creighton, 44, of Coventry, admitted murder at the start of the trial. | Sean Creighton, 44, of Coventry, admitted murder at the start of the trial. |
The remaining defendants, who each deny murder and possessing a shotgun, are Karl Garside, 45, and Ian Cameron, 46, both from Coventry. | The remaining defendants, who each deny murder and possessing a shotgun, are Karl Garside, 45, and Ian Cameron, 46, both from Coventry. |