Extra strength duct tape used in the torture and murder of a man whose near-naked body was found in his own home had been bought from B&Q two days before the attack, a court heard today.
The blood-stained silver tape was wound 'multiple times' around the wrists of Thomas Campbell, 38, who was found wearing only socks in the hallway of his home in July 2022.
The jury at Manchester Crown Court has been told that Campbell was tortured to death in a brutal attack in Mossley, Greater Manchester.
Experts identified the duct tape as probably being from a single roll of extra strength Gorilla adhesive tape which had been bought two days before from a B&Q store in nearby Oldham, they were told.
Mr Campbell's body was discovered by shocked neighbours the morning after he was allegedly subjected to a 'harrowing and violent assault' by a gang of three men.
