Tortured to death in a cold blooded killing fuelled by jealousy and revenge...how Thomas Campbell was betrayed by a woman who claimed to love him
Mascara ran down Coleen Campbell's cheek as she heard her ex-husband's screams. She fought back tears, putting her hands over her ears as she listened to Thomas Campbell's last, terrifying moments.
Within the space of a few days, she and Belfield had formed an apparent alliance with a common goal., seeking revenge against their former partners. He was attacked with weapons, punched, kicked, strangled and stamped on. In a final indignity, Thomas had boiling water poured over his buttocks. With their father dead, and their mother accused of his murder, perhaps the most tragic victims of this appalling crime are the couple's two children. Coleen will have years to consider exactly how she became embroiled in a conspiracy which ended with an appalling, cold blooded killing. A killing driven by jealousy, revenge and greed.
Leaving school at 16, she went to work at a hotel and had her first child aged 17, the day before her 18th birthday, with a previous partner. She knew Thomas Campbell from when they were both younger. But by the time he came back into her life, he’d already been to prison. The plush accommodation included a hot tub, 24-hour room service and an Xbox. Their jet set lifestyle also included trips to Sharm el-Sheikh and a resort in Bulgaria.
The reason why the Campbells may have felt they needed such protection might not have been obvious to the outside world. Coleen worked part time at Matalan and received working tax credits, while Thomas was registered as a self-employed fitness instructor. The couple had links with convicted drug dealers, including one man who was caught in Cheetham Hill with cocaine worth between £600,000 and £1.3million. They were jointly prosecuted and pleaded guilty to money laundering, enjoying around £100,000 of dirty money between 2009 and 2015.
"If he had an affair with someone I didn't know, maybe I could have got over it," she told her trial. So angered was she about her husband’s infidelity, she went to the woman’s house, smashed the windscreen of her car and drove into it. Thomas had only been in his new home for a few weeks when he was ambushed at his front door on Saturday, July 2 last year. Despite their apparent reconciliation, a lingering resentment clearly still bubbled inside Coleen.It all began with a simple Instagram notification. On Saturday, June 25, Coleen Campbell received a follow request from a man called John.
It was a report of the Campbell's court appearance in 2019 for money laundering. Reading the news article on his phone appeared to be a lightbulb moment for Belfield. At his murder trial, he was described as a ‘big time drug dealer’, and was said to be ‘thriving in the dog eat dog world of cocaine dealing'. Coleen, despite knowing how her ex-husband would likely react to any attack on him or his ill-gotten gains, was only too willing to help Belfield’s alleged audacious plan to rob his rival in love and crime.
With the coast clear, after Campbell had parked up and walked to the school, Stephen Cleworth, with Reece Steven acting as lookout, calmly crouched down and placed a tracking device on Campbell's van. Now, Thomas Campbell's whereabouts could be followed at the touch of a mobile phone. Two days later, Belfield and Coleen Campbell met for the first time. In a street adjacent to her beauty parlour on Manchester Road, Droylsden, Belfield was said to have showed her the tracking device.
The missing Cleworth left Belfield requiring a driver to head to Mossley, anxious to keep any cars he was linked to away from the scene. He turned to family friend Karl Murphy, a 50-year-old dad from Denton. Murphy was an innocent stooge, unaware of what was to follow. After inserting his key into the front door, he was ambushed from behind. Outnumbered, he desperately tried to fight off the trio.
He'd been punched, kicked, stamped on, strangled, and cut to his face. Thomas was dragged around the house, as the robbers ransacked his home in search of anything of worth. He received no response. The next sign of movement at the house was just before 1am, in the early hours of July 3. It soon became clear that the killing was the work of professionals. Crime scene investigators were unable to recover any of the killers' DNA from the house, with evidence of a clean up at the scene. A CCTV system had been ripped out.
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