Michael Hillier, 39, and Rachel Fulstow, 37, are on trial accused of the murder of 38 year-old Liam Smith in Wigan, which they deny
An electrician who was 'lured' out of his home, shot in the face, and had acid poured over him was 'executed' in a 'well-orchestrated and executed plot' the jury at a murder trial was told today .
He said that Ms Fulstow was known to Mr Smith and that it appeared that in 2019 they had a 'brief liaison' where they spent a night together in a hotel in York. Sometime in the following year or in 2021, Ms Fulstow became the partner of Mr Hillier the court was told. "However, even if that is right she had put it down to a 'misunderstanding' of the situation between them and that she herself held no ill feeling to Liam Smith."
Mr Pitter said it was the prosecution's case that 'only one person was at the scene and physically carried out that fatal attack, that being Michael Hillier.' On November 2 last year, after acquiring a Mitsubishi Shogun car, the court was told Mr Hillier made a trip to Wigan in what Mr Pitter said was 'either the first scoping mission by Michael Hillier, informed by intelligence and information from Rachel Fulstow' or that it was 'an aborted attempt to attack him.'
At 6:40pm Mr Hillier entered the garden of Liam Smith’s home and approached the house 'luring' Mr Smith out, who was last seen alive approaching the Shogun, the court heard.
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