Christopher Guest More: Cheshire cannabis farm killer convicted of 2003 murder
A television researcher who spent 16 years on the run has been convicted of murdering a man at a cannabis farm.
Christopher Guest More, 43, was one of four men who tortured and killed father-of-two Brian Waters in Tabley, near Knutsford, Cheshire in 2003.
He was arrested in 2019 in Malta, where he was living under a false name.
More was also found guilty of conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm to a second man who worked at the farm and was also tortured.
More, who had faced a retrial after a jury in May was unable to reach agreement, shook his head as the verdicts were returned at Chester Crown Court.
He had claimed he had befriended drug dealer John Wilson, one of three men previously convicted of Mr Waters' murder, because he thought he could sell a story on him being a police informant to the media.
More said he also thought he would be led to a cannabis farm which he could film for a television documentary.
The jury heard Mr Waters, who was growing cannabis at Burnt House Farm, owed Wilson a drugs debt of £20,000.
More, who had previously done undercover television work with investigative journalist Donal McIntyre, discovered where the cannabis farm was after following Mr Waters' son Gavin, who was 25 at the time.
Brian Waters was tortured and killed at the farm in front of his daughter Natalie, who had just turned 21, and Gavin on 19 June 2003.
His wife Julie was abducted from the family home and driven to the farm.
Mr Waters and Suleman Razak, who survived the four-hour ordeal, were tied up and suspended from rafters before being beaten, dropped in barrels of liquid, had staple guns used on their bodies and were assaulted with a metal bar.
When police arrived at the scene, following a call made from a phone box by Wilson's driver David Moran, they found a bag containing cigarette ends, drinks bottles and a bag of faeces which all had traces of More's DNA.
James Raven, who did television work with More, and Otis Matthews were convicted of murder at earlier trials.
