Man kills another man because girlfriend told him he raped her.... but now the girlfriend says 'it was not rape but it was not consensual'

A man who shot and threw acid over a father-of-two has told a court he and his girlfriend decided to “go down the vigilante route” after she told him she had been raped.

Michael Hillier denies the murder of Liam Smith but has admitted his manslaughter. The 38-year-old electrician was lured from his home in Wigan, Greater Manchester, on November 24 last year, shot and had sulphuric acid poured over him as he lay dying.

Rachel Fulstow, of Andrew Drive, York, has told the court she met Mr Smith in September 2019 after they connected through dating app Tinder. She said they had sex, which she told the court was not consensual but she did not regard it as a rape. She denies persuading her partner to carry out the attack.