My innocent brother Christopher Hughes was stabbed 90 times over vile internet rumour… ghouls gloated ‘he deserved it’
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JUST a few hours before he disappeared, Christopher Hughes, 37, phoned his sister, Fran, for a chat and told her he loved her. Tragically that call, on February 18, 2022, was the last time she would speak to him. Later that day Christopher, from Wigan, was snatched from the street by two men and bundled into the boot of a car which was then driven away.
![[Photo of Christopher Hughes.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/0e422022-bf3d-451d-890d-889a87cce050.jpg?strip=all&w=334)
Four days later his body was found by a dog walker, dumped in a ditch. He had been viciously stabbed to death, with over 90 blows. The kidnappers had sought what they thought was justice for the knife-point rape of a teenage girl. But they got the wrong man.
![[Blurred CCTV footage of perpetrators.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/blurred-cctv-footage-perpetrators-963478586.png?strip=all&w=960)
“I knew my brother and I knew he wouldn’t have done what they accused him of,” says his other heartbroken sister, Andrea. The family also had to deal with the hurt caused by the false rumour on the internet that he had sexually assaulted the young woman.
![[Blue Audi A4 (BV21 WZL) driving on a residential street.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2022-member-public-reported-seeing-963672786.jpg?strip=all&w=830)
“There are some nasty, vicious comments about how he deserved it because of what he did,” says Andrea. “I think that kills me more than anything because he’s gone now. We can’t bring him back. But that is eating me every time I see it.”. The dramatic events surrounding the horrific incident were captured, minute-by-minute by a TV documentary team following Greater Manchester Police's Serious and Organised Crime Group which airs on Channel 4 on Tuesday, 14 June.
![[DI Justin Bryant, Greater Manchester Police, Serious & Organised Crime Group.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/di-justin-bryant-greater-manchester-963478521.png?strip=all&w=960)
