THE killer of tragic schoolboy Ryan Mason was today jailed for life for his murder.
Ronald Mariner, aged 23, stabbed seven-year-old Ryan five times with a kitchen knife and then strangled him.
He then used a wheelie bin to carry the body of the schoolboy to Great Lever and Farnworth Golf Club where he dumped him.
Mariner of Bowland Drive, Johnson Fold, had denied the murder but the jury at Manchester Crown Court found him guilty after a four day trial.
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