cold-blooded killing of Timothy MacPherson said to be a gangland execution

Detectives investigating the cold-blooded killing of Timothy MacPherson – said to be a gangland execution – arrested a 31-year-old man on Monday night.The 29-year-old was shot in the neck and stomach on July 2, 2004, just weeks after being released early from a two-year jail term for selling cocaine and cannabis.Three binmen discovered his body in the yard of a house on Acre Lane, Derker, near Oldham.Three men were all acquitted of murder after a trial in 2006 and no-one has been convicted over the killing.Macpherson, of Pinewood Avenue, Lancaster, had a history of involvement with cocaine, heroin and other banned narcotics and had a criminal record for 14 drug offences.