Man sentenced to 31 years for Tyron Charles murder

A man has been jailed for life for the murder of Bradford man Tyron Charles.

James Sutcliffe was sentenced at Bradford Crown Court to a minimum term of 31 years.

He was found guilty following a trial which ended yesterday.

Sutcliffe, 29, of Hill Crest Road in Denholme, also received a four-year concurrent sentence for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice after he entered into a plan with his parents (62-year-old Janet and 61-year-old Kevin Sutcliffe, also of Hill Crest Road, Denholme) to dispose of the body.

They both received two years’ imprisonment today for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

The body of Mr Charles, who was 29 and a father of three, was found in a bog in Oxenhope Lane on 11 October last year by police. He had been reported missing five weeks earlier.

The court heard that Sutcliffe shot Mr Charles in a shipping container in an allotment last September after Mr Charles and Adrian Williams approached him about a debt of around £800.

He then took the body in his car to Nab Water Lane and dumped it in a bog.

After Sutcliffe was arrested it emerged that he had spoken to his parents about disposing of the body, which resulted in their arrest and subsequent charges for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.