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A man ran over and killed his girlfriend's brother on the night that the two men first met, a court has heard.

The victim was celebrating his mum's 70th birthday before Stephen Bates ploughed his car into him in a drunken rage, a murder trial was told.

Stephen Bates had only met Martin O'Donovan for the first time on the night he is accused of murdering the 47-year-old.

The men were downing Jägerbombs together before the incident outside his sister's home, on Stonyhurst Road in Woolton, Merseyside, in April this year, which came during their mum's 70th birthday party, the ECHO reports .

Stephen Bates, of Herondale Road in Mossley Hill, went on trial at Liverpool Crown Court yesterday, Tuesday, accused of Mr O'Donovan's murder.

The court heard the 42-year-old had l

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