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Stabbed man arrested over murder | Stabbed man arrested over murder |
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A businessman who has twice been cleared of murder is in hospital under arrest after a man was found stabbed to death at his Cheshire mansion. | |
Arran Coghlan was discovered with knife wounds at his Alderley Edge home on Tuesday afternoon. The body of Stephen Akinyemi was found in the bathroom. | |
Mr Akinyemi, of Cheetham Hill, Manchester, is thought to have known Mr Coghlan, who was taken to hospital. | |
Mr Coghlan, 39, is currently being treated there under police guard. | |
Officers made the discoveries after neighbours heard a loud disturbance at about 1400 GMT on Tuesday. | |
Mr Coghlan's injuries are not thought to be life-threatening. | |
He is under arrest on suspicion of murder. | |
Burned alive | |
Mr Coghlan's home on Brook Lane - a street lined with multi-million pound properties - has been cordoned off for forensic examination. | |
In 1994 he was cleared of murdering Stockport's "Mr Big" Chris Little, a well-known gangland boss. | |
He was shot dead at the wheel of his Mercedes in Marple in July 1994. | |
In 2001 Mr Coghlan was arrested on suspicion of murdering drug dealer David Barnshaw, known as the "body in the boot" case. | |
He had been kidnapped and forced to drink petrol before being burned alive in the back of his own car on an industrial estate in Stockport. | |
However, the case against Mr Coghlan and others collapsed in 2003 when it was revealed that police had failed to pass on important information about another possible suspect. | |
A Cheshire police spokeswoman said an investigation had begun and appealed for information. | A Cheshire police spokeswoman said an investigation had begun and appealed for information. |