Killer seen 'laughing and joking' after stab murder
Manchester Evening News|June 26, 2024
A MURDERER was seen laughing and joking in a shop after stabbing his mother’s former partner to death.
ANDREW BARDSLEY
Killer seen 'laughing and joking' after stab murder

Geoffrey Ives, 75, was killed in his own home in Heywood by 59-year-old Andrew Hall.

After the killing he took a taxi to an off-licence where footage showed him laughing and joking with the shopkeeper and other customers, Minshull Street Crown Court heard.

Shortly afterwards, Hall then smashed his way into his own former partner’s home, where he was banned from going under a court order, before trying to stab her son.

Hall was found guilty of murder and aggravated burglary with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm following a trial. He now faces a life sentence when he learns his fate at a later date.

Mr Ives had previously been in a relationship with Andrew Hall’s mother Mary, who died around 2006, the trial heard. The relationship between Mr Ives and Hall was ‘generally a good one’, it was said.

This story is from the June 26, 2024 edition of Manchester Evening News.

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