Before Jordan Bottom stood trial for the murder of a Victorian man, whose tortured body was found dumped in a shallow grave, he offered to plead guilty to manslaughter.
Jurors heard Lyons was set upon by four men in balaclavas – including Thorn and Smith – and beaten with fists and a metal pole until he bled. He was locked inside the boot again and driven by Thorn, Bottom and Smith to Double Bridges, where he was placed in a shallow grave and shot dead. Smith made frank admissions to police about his part in the assault, including going to Lyons’ home with a group of men intending to assault him.
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