Cocaine-fuelled killer is facing life behind bars

THUG FOUND GUILTY OF BRUTAL MURDER OF 'ONE-OF-A-KIND' DAD

- ANDREW BARDSLEY

A COCAINEfuelled killer brutally murdered a ‘one-of-a-kind’ dad in a horrific axe attack.

Kieran Oldham, 37, bludgeoned Liam Richardson more than a dozen times with the weapon during the ferocious killing in Rochdale.

Oldham faces a life sentence after being convicted of murdering the 21-year-old.

Liam had been at Oldham’s house when he launched the murderous attack. Prosecutors said that the pair knew each other but Oldham ‘bullied and used’ Liam.

A voicemail recording, apparently captured after Oldham accidentally called someone, provided an insight into what happened in the house in the early hours of October 3 last year.