Murderer was freed for good behaviour but stabbed his great-uncle to death just months later

A MAN convicted of murder when he was just 16 has been found guilty of murdering his great uncle after stabbing him to death.

- BY AMY WALKER

Direece Roche, 30, formerly fo Stockport, entered the house of Fintan McDwyer through an upstairs window in the early hours of 30 June last year.

He then slashed Mr McDwyer, 64, to the neck severing his jugular vein, before stabbing him 71 times to the face, head and body in a 'sustained and repeated attack!

He claimed he was intending to steal Mr McDwyer's dog, before alleging that the 64-year-old had sexually abused him as a child. But jurors saw through his lies and convicted him of murder following a trial at Manchester Crown Court.

Prosecuting, Bill Baker KC told jurors that Roche was 16 when he was convicted of murder in 2011.

On New Year's Day, he was involved in a confrontation in the street in which he produced a knife he was carrying and stabbed 23-year-old Adam Steele to the chest.

Mr McDwyer lived with his 26-year-old son at a property on Platt Lane in Fallowfield, and his dog Sammy a Staffordshire Bull Terrier Cross. She was originally owned by his sister, Maureen, who had passed away. Jurors were told that Maureen was Roche's grandmother, making Mr McDwyer his great uncle.