A BOUNCER from Elton jailed for life for the murder of a debt collector has failed in a Court of Appeal bid to win his freedom.
Scott Davidson, 24, was given a minimum 30-year sentence at Liverpool Crown Court in January for shooting Martin Ithell.
Co-accused Rachael Horton, 20, of Little Sutton, Davidson’s girlfriend at the time, was sentenced to eight years in a young offenders institute after she pleaded guilty to manslaughter. She belatedly acknowledged handing a kitchen knife to Davidson.
Davidson, who was once a doorman at Destiny and Elite nightclub at The Coliseum, had lured Mr Ithell to his Frodsham home on the false promise of clearing a debt.
Mr Ithell, 49, of Great Boughton, Chester, died of a shotgun wound to the heart and nine stab wounds to his neck on March 11, 2011.
In his grounds for appeal against conviction, Davidson argued Judge Clement Goldstone QC, Recorder of Liverpool, was wrong not to allow certain evidence of Mr Ithell’s character to go before the jury but was told by three leading Court of Appeal judges there was nothing wrong with the way he was convicted.
