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He promised he had changed his ways. Direece Roche , who murdered a man when he was just 16, was trying to persuade judges he should be freed.

Years earlier, he was handed a life sentence after he brutally took another person's life. A party in Salford in the early hours of New Year's Day became the precursor to a scene of horror.

Any festive atmosphere ended when Roche produced a knife and used it to deadly effect. Roche and his brother Owen, then 22, went to 23-year-old Mr Steele's flat in Salford to try and find Owen's girlfriend.

There had been tensions between the couple. The brothers turned up demanding to know where she was. A row ensued in the street. Direece Roche pulled out a knife - and used it.

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