A 33-year-old man was today cleared of murdering a father-of-one who was shot dead at a nightclub.

Owen Bell, of Marlborough Road, Salford, was charged with the murder of 30-year-old Damian Gordon after he was shot twice in the back as he left Club Icon, in Bradford, West Yorkshire, in the early hours of August 3 last year.

A jury at Bradford Crown Court took seven-and-a-half hours to find Bell not guilty of the murder.

Five other men who were also on trial charged with Mr Gordon's murder were acquitted last week after a hearing at the Court of Appeal in London.