Gang killed man wrongly suspected of rape
Seven men have been found guilty of the kidnap and murder of a man they wrongly suspected of raping a teenage girl.
The 37-year-old, from Wigan, had been snatched from a street and bundled into the boot of an Audi before being driven to his death in February.The court heard during the trial how Mr Hughes had been hunted by the gang, who wrongly suspected him of the knifepoint rape of a teenage girl behind a post office in Wigan.
The gang had attempted to bury Mr Hughes' body on waste land but were disturbed by police cars investigating a road traffic accident nearby.
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