Sean Creighton, faces a life sentence after he pleaded guilty to shooting dead a biker who was riding home from a Hell’s Angels festival.

Sean Creighton faces a life sentence after he pleaded guilty to shooting dead a biker who was riding home from a Hell’s Angels festival. Sean Creighton, 44, from Coventry, had been due to go on trial at Birmingham Crown Court for killing Gerry Tobin, a 35-year-old mechanic, but altered his plea to guilty. The trial of six other men for the murder of Mr Tobin, who was killed on the M40 motorway near Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, on August 12 last year, is due to start on Monday.
Mr Tobin, from Mottingham, southeast London, was shot in the back of the head as he returned home from the Bulldog Bash biker festival at Long Marston airfield in Warwickshire. More than 100 Hell’s Angels, some wearing denim and leather jackets emblazoned with the Outlaws insignia, descended on the court last week. Some wore masks and one hid his face behind sunglasses and beneath a hoodie and black bowler hat. Creighton, who also admitted two firearms charges, has been remanded in custody and will be sentenced at the end of the trial, which is expected to last for up to six weeks. His change of plea could not be reported until the trial judge, Mr Justice Treacy, lifted the legal restrictions. After a jury was sworn in the judge warned them not to begin conducting their own investigations into the killing of Mr Tobin. Karl Garside, 45, pleaded not guilty to murder during a previous hearing in February, while Simon Turner, 41, Dane Garside, 42, Malcolm Bull, 53, Dean Taylor, 47, and Ian Cameron, 46, entered their not guilty pleas last December.
The exact addresses of the defendants, who are from Coventry, Nuneaton and Milton Keynes, cannot be published for legal reasons. All six men also face a charge of possessing a shotgun, while Turner and Dane Garside are further charged with possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life. During the selection of potential jurors, the judge asked whether any of them had ever been a member of, or knew members of, any organised bikers’ group. Prospective jurors were also asked whether they had ever attended the Bulldog Bash bikers’ festival or a similar event organised by a group known as the Outlaws.