A teenager has been found guilty of helping the suspected killer of Andre Marshall cover his tracks in the aftermath of the gun murder.
Andre, 29, was found dead near St Clement’s Church, Urmston, on the morning of May 20 last year. He had been shot seven times. It is believed that he had been killed by a man called Abdul Ahsan, a suspected drug dealer who is said to have owed him £1,600.
Ahsan, 19, of Upper Chorlton Road, Old Trafford, skipped bail and went on the run after being arrested on suspicion of murder last year. But his boyhood pal and loyal henchman, Daniel Shahid, 19, of Carlton Street, Old Trafford, was tried with assisting an offender at Manchester Crown Court and has now been found unanimously guilty after a week-long trial.
The verdict puts Shahid in the unusual position of being found guilty of helping a man cover up a murder - when the alleged killer himself hasn’t yet been tried or convicted.
Shahid’s Manchester Crown Court trial heard that in the hour before the murder, Ahsan was a passenger in a BMW 3 Series Andre was driving.
Just before 1am on May 20 Andre pulled up at Manor Park, Urmston, where Ahsan allegedly pulled a gun on him and started firing at him.
Wounded Andre stumbled, or was pushed out of the car onto the street. There, Ahsan is alleged to have ‘pistol-whipped’ him with the Colt .45 murder weapon, before removing his phone, attempting to hide his body, and driving off in the BMW, which he abandoned nearby.
