Teenager murdered after being lured to house where armed men lay in wait, jury told

A teenager was murdered after being lured to a house where armed men were 'lying in wait', a jury was told. Callum Riley, 17, died after being stabbed at a property on Heywood's Darnhill estate.

Three men are on trial at Manchester Crown Court, accused of his murder. Tony Adams, 34, Dale Heywood, 26, and a 17-year-old boy who cannot be named for legal reasons, have all pleaded not guilty.

Two women are also on trial, accused of assisting an offender, after allegedly 'cleaning' the scene of blood and glass. Mr Adams’s partner Michelle Conaghan, 35, and their daughter, Niomi Conaghan, 19, both deny the charge.

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Mr Riley was knifed to the leg in the doorway of Mr Adams’ home on Atholl Drive, at 5am on September 17, 2022, the court heard. Prosecutors claim that he was ‘probably’ stabbed by Mr Heywood.

Mr Riley and a friend had both turned up at Mr Adams’ home ‘intent on taking revenge’, prosecutor Nicholas de la Poer KC said, on the first day of the murder trial. He told the jury: “Those responsible for Callum Riley’s death were not innocent householders who had the misfortune of being targeted by random local troublemakers.

“They had planned for Callum Riley coming, they expected it, and they were lying in wait. To their minds, Callum Riley needed to be put in his place, a lesson needed to be taught, and that was to be through the point of a blade and the swing of a bat.”

Prosecutors claim that Mr Riley had been deliberately provoked after Mr Adams had allegedly ‘assembled a crew of men’ to attend his home home earlier that night, where windows were smashed just after midnight.

Mr Riley was not present in the house, but after hearing of the incident he