Was gun killing a revenge mission?

AN overheard conversation revealed a plot linked to the murder of a man gunned down on his doorstep, a court has been told.

Amran Khan (29) was shot dead in Oldham in what is claimed to be revenge after a £12,000 heroin deal fell through. Damien Green (29), of Aldwyn Crescent, Hazel Grove, and Craig McKenzie (31), of Parkside Road, Fallowfield, deny murder.

It is alleged that Mr Green and Mr McKenzie were the suppliers in the drug deal in which two other men — who have been convicted of murder — acted as go-betweens.

Identical twins Brett and Jordan Francis were locked up last year for killing Mr Khan outside his home on Nugget Street.

A witness, who cannot be identified, told Manchester Crown Court he heard the twins talking about how the victim and his brother Gulfan had “done the dirty” on them in a £12,000 heroin deal.

The witness claimed the twins said they were going to “rough up” or “do in” the Khan brothers and said they had been offered a Mac-10 machine gun, a 9mm handgun and grenades.

Speaking from behind a screen, the man told the court that shortly before this conversation took place, he had seen a white man and a black man outside the twins’ Chadderton home. Hours later Amran Khan was killed.

The witness said a friend of his had later confirmed that these men were owed money for the drugs, and that the white man had access to the weapons.

The prosecution say that the white man was Damien Green and that the black man was Craig McKenzie.

Questioned by the defence, the witness accepted he had not heard the twins describe Mr Green and Mr McKenzie as the suppliers of the drugs or the weapons. He also accepted that he had only told police about a planned attack on Gulfan Khan, and not the victim Amran Khan, and he had got the colour of the defendants’ alleged car wrong.

The man denied that he had “muddled up” gossip in an attempt to benefit from the authorities.

Proceeding.