'Most wanted' killer who spent 16 years on the run - and his attempts to get out of prison
09.09.2023 - 08:51
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
An undercover TV researcher who spent 16 years on the run following the brutal torture killing of a dad-of-two at a cannabis farm has lost an appeal against his conviction. Christopher Guest More Jr, from Lymm, was jailed for life for the murder of Brian Waters in December 2021, more than 18 years after the killing.
On June 19, 2003 Mr Waters was tortured and killed on a farm in Tabley, Cheshire, close to junction 19 of the M6. The court heard he was hung upside down by his ankles and brutally tortured in front of his children.
Mr Waters and farm worker Suleman Razak, who survived the four-hour ordeal, were tied up and suspended from rafters, beaten, and dropped in barrels of liquid. They were also burned with melting plastic, had staple guns used on their bodies and were assaulted with a metal bar.
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Mr Waters suffered more than 100 separate injuries. More Jr fled the UK two days after the murder and was later named one of Europe's most wanted men.
He spent 16 years on the run and was living in Malta under a false name when police finally caught up with him in 2019. More Jr, then aged 43, denied murder and conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm, but was convicted by a jury at Chester Crown Court by a majority of 10 to two.
He claimed he had befriended Manchester-based drug dealer John Wilson, one of three men already convicted of the murder, because he thought he could sell a story on him being a police informant to the media and he might lead him to a cannabis farm, which he could film for a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary. Mr Waters, a cannabis dealer who was growing the drug at Burnt House Farm, near Knutsford, owed