A crime clan member turned supergrass who was vital in the conviction of Christopher Hughes also helped snare another killer.
The informant was quizzed for several days in the trial of gangster Hughes at the High Court in Glasgow. Hughes has been told he will spend at least 25 years behind bars after being convicted of murdering Dutch criminal-turned-blogger Martin Kok.But the inside man that helped to snare Hughes had testified just weeks earlier in the case of Jordan Owens, 27, at the same court.
Owens was later jailed for a minimum 23 years for the murder of new dad Jamie Lee, who was gunned down in Glasgow's Castlemilk in 2017.
The informer told jurors how Owens and Hughes both confessed to him as they were fugitives in the Belgian city of Antwerp. His crucial role in both trials can only now be revealed after a reporting ban until the end of the Hughes case.
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