Stephen Bates has been jailed for life for the murder of Martin O'Donovan, the brother of his girlfriend, who he ran over with his car on the night they first met at a 70th birthday party Stephen Bates was found guilty of the murder of Martin O'Donovan (Image: Merseyside Police)

A man who mowed down and killed his girlfriend's brother on the very night they first crossed paths has been sentenced to life behind bars. Martin O'Donovan, 47, died after being struck by Stephen Bates' Ford Fiesta outside his sister's house on Stonyhurst Road in Woolton, following his mum's 70th birthday celebrations .

Despite the pair reportedly getting along brilliantly at first, things took a violent turn during a booze-fuelled brawl when the 42-year-old stubbornly insisted on getting behind the wh

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