These are the faces of the brothers who killed Michael Rainsford and the criminals who failed to cover their tracks.
James and Michael Foy were today convicted of the 20-year-old’s murder following a four-week trial.
Their mum, uncle and neighbour were each found guilty of working to prevent them from facing justice.
The verdicts were delivered to a tense courtroom after jurors spent 16 hours and 20 minutes considering the fate of the five defendants.
They were met with protests from the dock and tears in the public galleries.
Mr Rainsford was struck by two bullets fired through his kitchen window at 11.07pm on April 7, 2020.
Just under an hour earlier bricks had been thrown at the Foys’ home in Seaforth, leading prosecutors to argue the brothers armed themselves with a handgun and set off in search of revenge.
James was informed of the attack by their mum, Joyce Smith, who had been home alone when her front window was smashed.
What followed was a flurry of phone calls and trips across South Sefton as the 19-year-old rode from Seaforth to pick up Michael, 22, in Waterloo.
Jurors found the pair then returned to their Rossini Street address before riding to Litherland and shooting Mr Rainsford.
Their victim had not been anywhere near their property when it was hit with bricks, Liverpool Crown Court was told.
The aftermath of the murder was dominated by efforts to cover the murderers' tracks.
The handgun fired from Mr Rainsford’s garden and the Sur Ron electric bike that transported the killers have not been recovered by police.
Both brothers’ mobile phones fell out of use the day after the shooting - with each claiming it was no more than a coincidence they “lost” their handsets on April 8.
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But detectives were still able to use CCTV and mobile phone data to pinpoint the Foys’ movements on the night.
And in doing so they were led to the people who tried to help them get away with murder.
They included their mum, who was charged with perverting the course of justice and whose phone was also last used on April 8.
The 46-year-old was accused of disposing of her SIM card, which search teams did not find when they raided the family home on April 9.
Smith said her phone had broken apart when she knocked it off a bedside cabinet in the night, causing her to place the nano-SIM on a chest of drawers.
She argued she did not get rid of it and that police had either removed it from her bedroom or failed to find it themselves.
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Craig Johnson - Smith’s brother - did have his phone on him when police arrested him in May of last year.
The device was examined and officers discovered two photographs of the electric bike owned by James that were taken in the shed of his home on Willard Drive in Bootle.
They were taken four days after Mr Rainsford was shot and sent to a friend called ‘Deano’ via WhatsApp.
The 39-year-old’s phone also contained text messages exchanged with a man the following day.
That conversation showed a man with a van had been arranged to visit his home on the night of April 12.
Johnson claimed he sent the bike photos to his friend to ask whether it was the same type of vehicle the pair had seen “flying” past them in Sefton Park and Calderstones Park.
The ‘van man’ was ordered to collect rubbish gathered during a lockdown garden tidy up, he added.
Prosecutors argued those claims were no more than lies designed to hide his efforts to sell the electric bike for the Foys.
Jurors were told the Foys’ neighbour, Andrea Saunderson, was known as the “mama” of Rossini Street because of the lengths she would go to in order to help others.
She accepted that extended to taking a bag of clothes from Smith despite being told the request was due to a fear the police were planning to raid her home.
But the 48-year-old denied hiding what were said to be two tracksuits and a bubble coat from search teams in order to frustrate a police investigation. Detectives only learned she had stored the clothes because she had told them when they raided her home.
Saunderson said she had no idea the clothes would form part of any probe, claiming she agreed to take them in because the “new” Hugo Boss and Nike goods were expensive and may take a long time to retrieve from police if they were seized.
Jurors dismissed the denials of Smith, Johnson and Saunderson, however, finding all three guilty.
All five will be sentenced on March 12.
