Drug dealer guilty of murder

Mr Marshall was killed at his isolated farmhouse

A drug dealer has been found guilty of murdering a married father-of-three at his isolated farmhouse.

Wesley Dickens, 35, of no fixed address, was convicted of killing Raymond Marshall, who was shot in the head eight times.

Jurors at Wolverhampton Crown Court took four and a half hours to reach the guilty verdict on Tuesday.

The jury is still considering its verdict on Dickens' co-defendant, Graham Sampson, and will resume its deliberations on Wednesday.

Raymond Marshall was shot eight times

The Crown alleges that demolition contractor Mr Marshall was killed after he failed to settle a £1,600 drug debt.

His body was found by his wife at Mount Pleasant Farm in Grindley, near Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, last August.

Sampson, 40, of Brook Street, Welshpool, Powys, has pleaded not guilty to murder.

Dickens had denied any involvement in the murder of Mr Marshall.