27 h. ago British cocaine dealer fled to South American bolthole after masterminding brutal murder of 'love rival'

After murdering 38-year-old Thomas Campbell in his own home in Mossley, Greater Manchester on July 2, 2022, John Belfield, 31, travelled on a stolen passport.

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56 h. ago Moment John Belfield arrested after being dragged back to UK over torturing love rival to death

After being on the run for seven months, John Belfield was deported back to the UK, and police officers handcuffed him as he exited a plane at Manchester Airport

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58 h. ago The pub meeting that led to brutal murder: Cocaine kingpin's killers plot to put tracker on his car before torturing him to death

To the uninitiated, it could be any pub gathering between three mates. But the occasion was not a pleasant social gathering - it was the beginning of a plot to kill a drug-dealing love rival.

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59 h. ago The moment fugitive murderer John Belfield touched down at Manchester Airport

Marched off the plane in handcuffs, he hung his head in shame

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61 h. ago John Belfield jailed after torturing love rival to death as family scream 'rot in hell'

Drug dealer John Belfield has been sentenced for murdering his love rival Thomas Campbell - who was tortured for over two hours, stabbed and strangled.

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64 h. ago Screams of ‘rot in hell’ and ‘you f***ing freak’ as John Belfield jailed for life for murder of love rival Thomas Campbell 

"You wanted Thomas Campbell to suffer. I have no doubt you took pleasure in his pain”

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66 h. ago LIVE as John Belfield sentenced for murdering love rival Thomas Campbell

Belfield was one of three men who lay in wait as Campbell arrived home late on a Saturday night in July 2022

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3 d. ago Cast's star John Power admits Oasis tour will be 'quite a moment' ahead of Cardiff show

John Power of Cast has opened up about supporting Oasis, with the band opening the first show in 16 years tomorrow to a sold-out Principality Stadium in Cardiff

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3 d. ago John Belfield GUILTY of murder after 'torturing love rival Thomas Campbell to death'

Drug dealer John Belfield, 31 showed no emotion as he was convicted of the murder of the 38-year-old in 2022 at Manchester Crown Court on Thursday afternoon

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3 d. ago Man who organised torture and killing of 'love rival' after plotting with victim's ex

John Belfield, 31, 'masterminded' the savage killing of Thomas Campbell, whose bloodied and near-naked body was found in the hallway of his Greater Manchester home.

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3 d. ago John Belfield GUILTY of murdering and conspiring to rob love rival Thomas Campbell

Belfield was one of three men who lay in wait as Campbell arrived home late on a Saturday night in July 2022

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5 d. ago Republicans fall into line again and bring Trump’s agenda closer to reality

The odds of a ‘John McCain moment’ look much dimmer after Murkowski approved Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ while telling reporters she doesn’t like it, writes John Bowden

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9 d. ago Furious Love Island row erupts as star tells rival to 'shut the f*** up'

Relationships between Love Island stars became fractured after Harrison decided to go to the Hideaway with another girl just one night after going on a date with his partner

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1 week ago Man accused of organising murder of 'love rival' bragged he was going to have sex with victim's ex

John Belfield, 31, is accused of being the 'driving force' behind the brutal killing of Thomas Campbell, whose bloodied body was found in the hallway of his home bound in extra-strength duct tape.

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1 week ago Girlfriend of victim sent naked video of herself to ex and asked him to sleep with her days before he allegedly masterminded the torture and murder of 'love rival', court told

John Belfield, 31, said he responded by sending a screenshot of Demi-Lee Driver's clip to Thomas Campbell - but insisted he 'did not want any trouble'.

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1 week ago The John Clark moment that summed up his Celtic career with one flash of a Lisbon Lion boot

Fellow Lion Jim Craig is devastated by the news his old friend has passed away at the age of 84

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2 w. ago The millionaire playboy rotting in jail for a crime he says he didn't commit...and the missing witness who holds the key to his freedom

Millionaire playboy Jason Moore was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 18 years on December 23 2013 after he was convicted of the murder of Robert Darby.

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2 w. ago Love Island host Maya Jama lands huge new role on rival show airing at same time

EXCLUSIVE: Maya Jama has signed up for another high profile show. The presenter will be one of the stars on this week's edition of Celebrity Gogglebox alongside her brother

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2 w. ago Brutal moment Louis Tomlinson SNUBS Sam Thompson at Soccer Aid proving their feud over Zara McDermott runs deep

Louis Tomlinson has been caught on camera brutally snubbing love rival Sam Thompson after the full-time whistle blew at Soccer Aid.

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3 w. ago Artists, Siblings, Visionaries by Judith Mackrell review – the remarkable lives of Gwen and Augustus John

Gwen’s talent vastly outshone her brother’s – but both are treated with subtlety in this outstanding dual biographyA young woman sits reading, a pot of tea to hand, her blue dress almost the only colour in a still, sandy room. Gwen John’s painting The Convalescent shows a subdued yet happy moment, for this woman is free to think and feel. That, we see in Judith Mackrell’s outstanding double biography of Gwen and her brother, was her ideal for living: to be at liberty even if that meant existing in deepest solitude.The quietness of a life spent largely alone in single rooms, reading, drawing, painting and occasionally having wild sex with the sculptor Rodin, is counterpointed in this epic narrative by the crowded, relentless, almost insanely overstimulated life of Augustus John. Lion of the arts in early 20th-century Britain, he was a bigamist, adulterer, father of so many children you lose track (so did he), and an utterly forgettable painter. Continue reading...

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