Teenager Guilty of Unlawful Killing of Marlon Moran

A TEENAGER has been convicted of the unlawful killing of Marlon Moran.

Eighteen-year-old Daniel Masher was cleared of 21-year-old Marlon’s murder, together with his co-accused Callum Kennedy, Jordan Crawford and a 16-year-old who cannot be name for legal reasons, at Liverpool crown court yesterday.

When the verdicts were read out there was delight among their family and friends in the public gallery.

But relatives of the victim were unhappy and many left the courtroom distraught, with shouts including; “It's like being killed twice. They are back on the streets to kill someone else.”


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During the five-week trial, the jury heard allegations that 21-year-old Marlon Moran had been stabbed in a racist attack following a campaign of racist abuse.

But the defendants denied this and claimed that the victim had been a bully and Daniel Masher had lashed out in self-defence during the incident outside his home in Byron Close, Garston, on May 13.

The kitchen knife was plunged 10 and half inches into the victim's abdomen severing major blood vessels and fatally injuring him. Despite being rushed to hospital by his uncle the victim died less than three hours later.

Marlon Moran

That afternoon Marlon had been outside his nearby home in Shelley Grove with his girlfriend, sister, her boyfriend and his cousin.

It was alleged that the defendants arrived on the scene armed with weapons including knives and shouting racist abuse and threatening him, claimed Andrew Menary, QC, prosecuting

Marlon, who had been given a hockey stick to defend himself, began to walk towards them and they backed off and went into Masher's home.Š

They came out with weapons and Masher stabbed him.

Masher told the court he was frightened of Marlon andŠgot the knife to scare him off. He said: “If I would not have stabbed him I would have had my head smashed in.”

Callum Kennedy, 18, of Winslade Road, Walton; Jordan Crawford, 18, Convent Close, Grassendale, and the juvenile were all discharged from the dock.