Wu’s victory completed a remarkable story that started when he arrived the UK with his father, sharing a bed in a windowless flat in Sheffield.

O’Sullivan required just 35 minutes to turn a 7-2 overnight advantage into another comfortable Crucible win.

Witness Emma Farrell told the Central Criminal Court jury that her husband's violence could 'erupt spontaneously without any provocation'

O’Sullivan was seldom required to reach top gear as he turned a 6-2 overnight lead into a 12-4 advantage.

Martin O’Hagan, 51, was shot dead by loyalist paramilitaries as he walked home from a night out with his wife in Lurgan in September 2001.