Overview

• A Manchester Crown Court jury unanimously convicted Belfield on July 3 of murder and conspiracy to rob after a month-long trial.
• Mr Justice Graham imposed life imprisonment with a minimum term of 34 years and 261 days at the sentencing hearing on July 4.
• Prosecutors presented evidence of weeks of hostile surveillance, GPS tracking of Campbell’s car and a two-hour torture session resulting in 61 separate injuries.
• Coleen Campbell, Reece Steven and Stephen Cleworth were convicted in 2023 for facilitating the ambush, while a fourth attacker remains unidentified and at large.
• Belfield escaped to Suriname two days after the July 2022 killing, was arrested there in March 2023 and extradited to the UK for trial.