Wilson, Trey

Durrell Goodall, Reano Walters and Trey Wilson, who were 20, 19 and 19 when they were convicted, were jailed in August 2017 for the joint enterprise murder of Abdul Hafidah, 18, in Manchester in May 2016. In total, thirteen men were charged with the murder, and were tried at two separate trials at Manchester and Preston Crown Courts. 

Mr Goodall, Mr Walters and Mr Wilson were convicted of murder in the second trial. Mr Goodall was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 16 years. Mr Walters and Mr Wilson were sentenced to 20 years each.  

The CCRC received applications for Mr Goodall, Mr Walters and Mr Wilson in May 2023. Their submissions included multiple expert reports criticising the prosecution’s trial evidence, especially but not only attacking testimony from a police officer about gang membership.

They noted the lack of defence argument around gang narrative and criticised the judge’s directions to the jury on the same theme. They asserted that many of the images relied on by the prosecution at trial did not denote gang affiliation.  

The CCRC reviewed this carefully prepared case and obtained written responses to the new evidence from each applicant’s trial counsel. It determined that there was a real possibility the Court of Appeal would find the fresh evidence materially undermined the prosecution case at trial in a key way, which may have significantly impacted the jury’s conclusions, especially in the context of a criticised judicial direction to the jury. 

The CCRC referred the conviction in November 2025.