A third man has been charged with the murder of Michael Blake.

Last night police said Joe Wilson, of Romney Way, Stockport, has been charged with the 28-year-old Westhoughton dad's murder and will appear before Wigan and Leigh magistrates tomorrow.

Yesterday morning a second man was charged with Mr Blake's murder. Nathan Quigley, 30, of Cleworth Walk, Hulme, was charged and remanded to appear before Manchester magistrates.

Nathan Aaron Daniels, 27, of Nottingham Avenue, Stockport, was charged on November 16 with Mr Blake's murder. He appeared before Bolton magistrates and was remanded in custody to appear again, January 30.

Mr Blake was found with a gunshot wound to the back of his head and a gunshot wound to his leg late at night on Thursday, November 3, in a ginnel beside his house in Manchester Road, Westhoughton. He died in hospital the following morning.