Mr Coghlan, who says he is a family man, was cleared in 1996 of shooting Chris Little dead at the wheel of his Mercedes in Stockport.

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They found him in Elizabeth Street, dead behind the wheel of his Hertz car that came to rest in the interior of what had been, until his arrival, a fashionable boutique.

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We hit it, the steering wheel went dead and the car began to glide, ghosting toward the shoulder, which looked about four feet wide and well below the surface of the new blacktop it was a big drop-off of five or six inches and the shoulder was red clay drenched with rain.

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