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Scots crime clan supergrass who helped snare sex club killer also played crucial role in playpark murder trial
22.04.2022 - 14:21 / dailyrecord.co.uk
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.
The witness - who cannot be identified - met Owens in an Antwerp flat in November 2017.
Owens had arrived there effectively in the back of a lorry after being ferried away to Europe by criminal associates.
The supergrass said: “It was in a compartment built into the lorry for concealment.”
The informer said Owens went on to confess involvement in the shooting of Jamie Lee, 23, at the meeting in the Belgian city.
Owens spoke of “ill feeling” between him and the Lee family.
The informant: “Jordan had got warned that Jamie Lee and his group were coming down to go through his gran’s door.”
Owens said a knife had been hurled at him near a play park shortly before the killing.
A fight then erupted between the groups.
The informer said he was told Owens and a friend raced into a close.
The witness: “He said his friend held the door and Jordan got the ‘tool’ - think he was
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