The vicious and sadistic murder of Christopher Hughes is the subject of a new TV series
Eight men spent 24 hours hunting the former boxer down and brutally murdered him in a chilling attack that rocked one area of Lancashire. They eventually located him on a housing estate and forced him into the boot of an Audi in broad daylight.
A trial at Liverpool Crown Court heard that the gang had taken the law into their own hands under the mistaken belief that Christopher had raped a teenage girl at knifepoint. His desperate protests of innocence did not save him. But he was not there, and the gang's efforts to trace him were suspended overnight. They resumed the following day and, at about 4.30pm, Christopher was finally spotted in Almond Grove, on the Worsley Hall estate. The former boxer was cornered and struggled as he was forced into the boot of a blue Audi A4.
Equipped with a spade, wellies, gloves, bottles of bleach and bin bags, the men were digging a grave on nearby wasteland when they were disturbed by police, who were investigating a road traffic accident nearby, and abandoned the burial. The killers tried to cover their tracks by destroying CCTV, changing telephones, deleting messages and disposing of the Audi used in the kidnap.
Martin Smith of Laithwaite Road, Wigan, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 33 years for murder, 12 years for kidnap to run concurrently. Dean Smeaton O’Neill-Davey of Bulteel Street, Wigan - life with a minimum term 25 years for murder, 12 years for kidnap to run concurrently.
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