A member of a major Scottish crime gang was condemned today to spend two and a half decades behind bars, after being convicted of the "execution" of a Dutch crime writer outside a sex club in Holland.
Christopher Hughes was jailed for life at the High Court in Stirling and told by a judge that he would be ineligible for release on licence for at least 25 years.
Hughes, 33, a senior member of a crime clan which had global connections ranging from Colombian drug cartels to the Italian mafia, lured Martin Kok, 49, to his death before he was shot eight times in the head and body by a gunman in Laren, near Amsterdam, on 8 December 2016.
