Two men have been convicted of murdering a man they wrongly thought was a paedophile.

Mark Roberts, 39, and David Garland, 40, were found guilty of murdering Michael Wheeler as well as conspiracy to murder after a trial lasting over five weeks.

Mr Wheeler had been friends with Roberts and Garland as well as three other men, Jack Rance, Angus Warner, and Reuben Clare, who were cleared of charges against them, BristolLive reports .

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But the friendship turned sour when four of the group saw an online news report about another man who happened to also be named Michael Wheeler being sent to prison in 2003 after admitting to grooming and sexually abusing two 13-year-old girls.

Prosecutor David Elias KC told the court that the murder vic

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