James and Barries Gillespie were brothers involved in crime in Glasgow.[1] They moved to Portugal to avoid being killed in a gang war while running their business.[1] Scottish police have named their gang the Escalade Group.[1]
Encrypted phonesedit
Initially the brothers used phones from Ennetcom.[1] They then hired developers to develop an operating system for their own phones and distributed them to their own gang and others they worked for.[1] They began selling the phones to other gangs.[1]
On 8 December 2017 Martin Kok was shot dead outside a sex club in Laren.[3] Christopher Hughes faced charges of concealing money and supplying encrypted devices to others (including Kok), a second charge relating to the supply of cocaine and a final charge in relation to the murder of Kok.[4] In April 2022 Hughes was convicted at the High Court in Stirling, Scotland and jailed for at least 25 years.[5]
The motive for the murder was blog posts that annoyed Moroccan crime figures with links to the Gillespie brothers. The brothers lulled Kok into a false sense of security by sponsoring him and running adverts on his site. They then arranged for him to be murdered by their associates.[2]
^ abcdefghijkCox, Joseph (2019-10-22). "Inside the Phone Company Secretly Run By Drug Traffickers". Motherboard. Retrieved 2022-05-31.
^ abcCox, Joseph (2018-10-24). "Encrypted Phone Company Helped Plan Crime Blogger's Murder, Cops and Source Say". Motherboard. Retrieved 2022-05-31.
^Barnes, David (2018-02-08). "The Strange Life of a Murderer Turned Crime Blogger". Wired. Retrieved 2022-05-31.
^"Man denies role in sex club murder of Dutch crime writer". BBC News. 7 April 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
^"Scottish gangster lured crime writer to 'execution' outside sex club". STV News. 2022-04-22. Retrieved 2022-05-31.
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