Who was Christopher Hughes? Man falsely accused of sexual crime murdered by eight men
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CHANNEL 4 has a gripping new series that takes you right into the action with specialist police teams tackling high-stakes manhunts. The clock starts ticking when Christopher Hughes is spotted being forced into a car—then disappearing without a trace. Here’s what we know about him.
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Christopher Hughes’ tragic story begins when the 37-year-old was found dead on February 22, 2022 near a road in Skelmersdale, Lancashire. 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.
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Greater Manchester Police revealed that DNA evidence from the sexual offence investigation did not match Christopher, but the men behind this horrific act “took the law into their own hands.”. According to police, the group, who “all knew each other or were related,” began searching Wigan on February 17, 2022.
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They even broke into Christopher’s home before their hunt “continued the following day until Christopher was abducted in broad daylight.”. Christopher was spotted in Wigan’s Almond Grove on February 18, 2022 where Curtis Balbas and Erland Spahiu forced him into a car boot.
He was then driven at high speed to White Moss Road South in Skelmersdale, where he was “brutally attacked and killed in act of retribution.”. 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.
