Age: 31
Sex: male
Date: 27 Dec 2011
Place: Sinclairs Bar, Drake Street, Rochdale
John Lee Barrett was stabbed at a Christmas Eve party at Sinclair's Bar and nightclub on Drake Street, Rochdale at around 2.40am on 25 December 2011 and died two days later.
Twelve people in 2013 were convicted for lesser offences but no one was convicted of his murder. Six men were initially charged with his murder but acquitted although convicted of lesser offences whilst six other men were charged with lesser offences, but not murder, and also convicted. It was heard that the man that had stabbed John Barrett could not be identified.
