It was an act of bloodthirsty revenge. Christopher Hughes was stabbed 90 times after he was snatched off a street and bundled into the boot of an Audi.
But the gang of vigilantes who kidnapped him had made a colossal mistake.
His killers had wrongly believed he had raped a teenage girl at knifepoint. The young dad's desperate protests of innocence did not save him. The gang took the law into their own hands.