Who was Christopher Hughes? Man falsely accused of sexual crime murdered by eight men. Innocent young man, Butchered by a vigilante gang. Most of the Gang, from Iraq, Albania, and another, Lithuanian National, full Story on the Sun Paper.

In February 2023, the eight members of a vigilante gang received life sentences for their roles in the abduction and brutal murder of Christopher. 

Together, their minimum sentences added up to a massive total of 229 years.

He had been wrongly accused of the knifepoint rape of a teenage girl earlier that year.

He was brutally stabbed more than 90 times after being snatched off the street and forced into the boot of a car. 

Prosecutor John Elvidge KC said that on the evening of the killing, Dean O’Neill Davey, Andrius Uzkuraitis, Spahiu, and his visiting cousin, Erion Voja, attempted to hide Christopher’s body.