A trainee jockey was remanded in custody for the second time yesterday charged with murdering former Newcastle United reserve striker Gary Walton.
Christopher McGrath, 23, known as Christy, of Brancepeth Manor Farm, Brancepeth Village, near Durham, will appear next before magistrates on August 23. A committal date has been set for September 6. Solicitor David Pattison made no application for bail.
The victim, a 37-year-old from Coundon, County Durham, was found in a garden behind the village's Miners' Arms, on Monday July 17
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