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Third teenager, 17, is charged with murder over churchyard killing

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A third teenager has been charged with the churchyard murder of Steven McMyler last Thursday.  Mr McMyler, 34, was kicked in the head in Wigan Parish Church’s yard and was pronounced dead at the scene.  A 17-year-old youth from the Merseyside area, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was due to appear at Manchester Magistrates’ … Read more

Teenage boy aged 13 is now second male charged with churchyard murder of man

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A 13-year-old boy has been charged with the graveyard murder of Steven McMyler in locked-down Wigan after an ‘earlier altercation’ at the church.  Mr McMyler, 34, was found dead in the gardens of Wigan Parish Church in Bishopgate last Thursday.   A 19-year-old man, Jordan Short, of Kirby, Merseyside, appeared in court yesterday charged with a … Read more

Woman in her 40s is murdered in east London churchyard

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Woman in her 40s is murdered in east London churchyard precisely one week after another female victim, 40, was stabbed to death in same road Woman’s body found with ‘multiple’ injuries in Newham, London, churchyard The woman is thought to have been attacked in the early hours of the morning She was found at 3pm … Read more