Fifth man guilty of biker killing

Another man has been found guilty of the murder of a biker as he rode home from a festival in Warwickshire.

Dean Taylor, 47, of Coventry, was also convicted of a firearms offence.

He had denied murdering Gerry Tobin, 35, a Hells Angel of Mottingham, south-east London, who was shot on the M40 after leaving the Bulldog Bash event.

Three other men - all members of rival biker gang The Outlaws - have already been found guilty of murder, while a fourth admitted the killing earlier.

The jury was sent home for the night without reaching verdicts over murder charges against two more men.

Two bullets

Mr Tobin, who was originally from Canada, was shot on 12 August last year after leaving the festival at Long Marston airfield, near Stratford-upon-Avon.

The trial has heard he was targeted for being a "fully patched", or fully initiated, Hells Angel.

Two bullets were fired at the biker from a Rover car which pulled up alongside him on the M40.

The jury had heard Taylor owned a motorbike shop in Coventry which had been used as The Outlaws' meeting place.

The prosecution said he had been "scouting" for a target before the killing.

Taylor refused to speak to police during the investigation saying it was against club rules.

Simon Turner, 41, of Nuneaton, and Dane Garside, 42, of Coventry, were convicted of Mr Tobin's murder and a firearms offence on Monday.

Malcolm Bull, 53, of Milton Keynes, has also been convicted of murder and a firearms charge.

Sean Creighton, 44, of Coventry, admitted murder at the start of the trial.

The remaining defendants, who each deny murder and possessing a shotgun, are Karl Garside, 45, and Ian Cameron, 46, both from Coventry.

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