LIVE as John Belfield sentenced for murdering love rival Thomas Campbell

John Belfield - the drug dealer who plotted and executed the horrific murder of love rival Thomas Campbell - has been sentenced to life.

There were cries of 'rot in hell' as he was sentenced on Friday.

The 31-year-old got a minimum term of 34 years and 261 days, after having been convicted of murder and conspiracy to rob.

He recruited a team to help him kill Campbell after he began a relationship with Demi-Lee Driver, his killer's ex-partner. Belfield was one of three men who lay in wait as Campbell arrived home late on a Saturday night on July 2, 2022.

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Manchester Crown Court heard the killing followed a week of hostile surveillance carried out on 38-year-old Mr Campbell by Belfield and his conspirators.

When they struck, Campbell could be heard to scream as the trio attacked and subdued him on his front drive, before bundling him inside the house on Riverside in Mossley, Tameside.

For the next two hours he was stabbed, strangled and had hot liquid poured on his genitals. Prosecutors said he was 'tortured to death', having suffered 61 separate injuries.

Campbell's ex-wife had been in on the plot. Coleen Campbell had fed her former spouse's killers vital information about his whereabouts and was found guilty of manslaughter following a trial in 2023.

Reece Steven, who Belfield recruited into the crime, was found guilty of murder. Stephen Cleworth, who Belfield also recruited and planted a tracking device on Campbell's car, was convicted of manslaughter. All were jailed in 2023.

The third attacker who formed part of the group who attacked Campbell remains unknown and is wanted by