12:27 EDT, 12 May 2021
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Four men have been found guilty of killing an extremely likeable father-of-two who was kicked to death for his £11,000 gold Rolex watch.
Steven McMyler, 34, was attacked in the grounds of Wigan Parish Church in Bishopgate in the early evening of August 6 last year.
Shortly before, joiner Mr McMyler had been in a nearby town centre pub when a fellow drinker, Lewis Peake, 29, learned he was was wearing the 18-carat Submariner watch.
Peake first tried to persuade two boys, aged 12 and 13, outside The Raven pub to help him rob Mr McMyler and offered them £100 each, a court heard.
Boys, 14 and 17, and two men guilty of killing man for his £11k Rolex after he left pub
Steven McMyler, 34, was found with serious injuries in the grounds of Wigan Parish Church after a night at the pub on August 6 last year and was later pronounced dead by medics
15:35, 12 MAY 2021
Steven McMyler s watch has never been recovered (Image: MEN Media)
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VICTIM: Steven McMyler and Wigan Parish Church A JURY has begun considering whether a Little Lever man and three others are guilty of the churchyard killing of a man and conspiring to rob him of his Rolex watch. Following a three-week trial Mr Justice Turner summed up the evidence for the jury this morning and they have now retired to begin their deliberations. It is claimed that 30-year-old Lewis Peake recruited his co-defendants to help him rob Steven McMyler, who he had only met that day, of his £11,000 watch. Peake, of James Street, Little Lever, is said to have enlisted Michael Wilson and two youths, aged 17 and 14, shortly after they arrived in Wigan by train from the Liverpool area.
Jury retires to consider verdicts in Steven McMyler manslaughter trial
Four defendants are also accused of conspiring to rob the 34-year-old, who died outside Wigan Parish Church
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Steven McMyler was pronounced dead in the grounds of Wigan Parish Church last August (Image: MEN)
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