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The Latest Breaking News from Christopher Hughes

Scots cops warn criminals on run there's 'nowhere to hide' as international hunt for fugitive Derek Ferguson ramped up

Derek McGraw Ferguson is wanted in connection with the murder of Thomas Cameron in 2007.

Daily Record

Fugitive Scots mobster 'The Don' jailed after being captured in Brazilian bolthole

Supergang boss James White was wanted over his dealings with the 'sophisticated' crime group which involved drugs, firearms, serious violence and dirty money.

Daily Record

The murderers and the 'most wanted' helped to escape by passport gang

A number of the UK's most wanted fugitives used fake passports which cost between £5k and £20k

Liverpool Echo

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Gang supplied fake passport to 'Premier League' cocaine kingpin caught in Dubai

The gang supplied drug dealer Michael Moogan with a fake passport

Liverpool Echo

Glasgow gangsters used fake Latvian passports supplied by armed robber to flee the country

Chris Zietek, 67, known as The Commander, supplied the dodgy documents to criminals, including the Gillespies, of Rutherglen, for £5000-£15,000. The scam saw fugitives assume identities of drunks and drug addicts.

Glasgow Live

Gangster passport scammer who helped criminals flee Scotland is convicted

Chris Zietek, 67, known in underworld circles as ‘The Commander’, supplied dodgy passports for between £5,000 and £15,000.

Daily Record

Gang hitman loses appeal to overturn conviction for murder of Dutch journalist

Christopher Hughes challenged his conviction saying the trial judge failed to direct the jury about prior statements made by a supergrass who helped build crucial evidence against him.

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Glasgow gangster will stay in prison for murder of crime writer outside sex club

The Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh rejected Christopher Hughes' appeal against conviction for his part in the execution of Martin Kok in the Netherlands.

Glasgow Live

Vigilante killers, murderer's mum and shooting gang among 14 crooks jailed this week

These are the criminals from our region who were locked up over the past seven days

Liverpool Echo

A torture gang, killer drink driver and a boasting drug dealer: The people locked up in Greater Manchester this week

A controlling thug who dubbed himself a ‘wife beater’ as well as a drug gang who were caught hiding in people’s gardens have also been caged this week

Manchester Evening News

'Vigilante' gang jailed after abducting and murdering innocent dad

Christopher Hughes was brutally murdered by a group of eight men on February 18 last year after the vigilante gang abducted him and tortured him to death

Daily Record

The bloodthirsty vigilantes who murdered a young dad - but made a colossal mistake

"What they did in February last year was nothing short of atrocious"

Manchester Evening News

Killers call judge a 'tw*t' and throw water as they're jailed for 229 years

Eight men were today handed life imprisonments for the murder of Christopher Hughes

Liverpool Echo

Gang kidnapped and murdered innocent dad they thought had raped a teenager

Christopher Hughes suffered multiple injuries, most of which were inflicted while he was still alive

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Liverpool Echo

Faces of eight men jailed for life after hunting down and murdering former boxer

Vigilantes bundled dad into the boot of an Audi before dumping his body on a country road

Manchester Evening News

The faces of the eight murderers locked up for hacking dad to death in horrific gang attack

The gang have been jailed for a total of 235 years

Manchester Evening News

BREAKING: Sadistic gang who kidnapped dad they wrongly suspected of rape and hacked him to death jailed for 235 years

Christopher Hughes was viciously slaughtered by the gang

Liverpool Echo

Vigilantes bundled dad into boot of Audi and left mutilated body on road

Eight men have been jailed for life after abducting and brutally murdering former boxer Christopher Hughes

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Manchester Evening News

Mum of man who was brutally murdered by vigilante gang, tells court of her family's anguish

Susan Hudson said she is now devoting her life to caring for Mr Hughes' young daughter

Edinburgh Live

Scotland’s prisons are home to dozens of high profile gangland figures

The SPS said the rise in gang members was one of the most significant changes to the population within the last decade.

Daily Record

Nearly one in 10 Scots prisoners have links to organised crime including 23 gangland bosses

The population of gang members in Scottish prisons has risen in the last decade with many key figured jailed.

Manchester Evening News

Gang who murdered and mutilated innocent dad to be sentenced next month

The men wrongly suspected Christopher Hughes of a knifepoint rape

Manchester Evening News

Seven found guilty of brutal kidnap and murder of Christopher Hughes stabbed 90 times

The men incorrectly believed Mr Hughes, 37, was responsible for the knifepoint rape of a teen girl

Edinburgh Live

Scotland's runaway gangsters escaped using detailed passport scam, court told

Investigators told a trial how some of the country’s most wanted men were able to escape justice by getting their hands on genuine UK passports from a gang of alleged English fraudsters.

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