Martin Kok: Jurors shown footage of crime blogger's murder

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Christopher Hughes, 33, is accused of the murder of Dutch crime writer Martin Kok near Amsterdam in 2016.

Jurors in a Scottish court have been shown footage of a Dutch crime writer being gunned down outside a club.

The footage, shown at the High Court in Glasgow, showed Mr Kok leaving a sex club with a man, identified in court as Mr Hughes, and getting into a car.The trial has previously heard that Martin Kok was a well-known journalist and crime writer in the Netherlands who hadMr Hughes has pleaded not guilty to murder, attempted murder and a number of other charges including involvement with organised crime and the supply of cocaine.

Mr Kok and Mr Hughes were identified in the footage by Det Insp Michael Lochrie, a Police Scotland detective who was working in a team focused on serious organised crime. Mr Kok was then witnessed entering the driver's side of a parked Volkswagen Polo, with Mr Hughes behind him.

 

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