Seven men were this afternoon (Monday) convicted of the vicious murder of Wigan dad Christopher Hughes.
They were all also convicted of kidnapping the 37-year-old, who was snatched off the street in broad daylight and bundled into the boot of an Audi before being driven off to his death. The jury of eight men and four women at Liverpool Crown Court returned their unanimous verdicts following just over 34 hours deliberations.
The court heard during the trial, which began on October 20, that over 24 hours the gang ruthlessly hunted down Mr Hughes, whom they wrongly suspected of the knifepoint rape of a teenage girl behind a post office in Ridyard Street, Wigan.
