A man accused alongside his twin brother of shooting dead a young dad has told a court that they are innocent of murder.

Amran Khan, 29, was shot on the doorstep of his home at Nugget Street, Oldham, on September 18 last year.

Brett and Jordan Francis, 26, of Birch Avenue, Chadderton, are accused of killing Mr Khan after he and his brother Gulfan failed to pay them £12,000 for drugs they had supplied.

Jordan Francis told Manchester Crown Court that on the night Mr Khan was killed he and his brother had spent the evening in their mother’s home and only learnt about the shooting when a ‘screaming’ Gulfan Khan called them up and accused him of having done it.

Mr Francis said that in the days before the killing, Gulfan ‘Gogo’ Khan had ordered him and his twin brother to act as go-betweens in a drugs deal with unidentified suppliers.

But, after the drugs were intercepted by the police, the Khan brothers refused to pay the suppliers the twins had organised the deal with.

Jordan Francis said that he and his brother were then ordered by the suppliers to pick up a BMW that was ‘parked near Middleton’ and leave it near their home.

He said he understood that the stolen vehicle would be used in a bid to ‘rough up’ Amran Khan, and that he told the drug suppliers where Mr Khan lived, unaware he would be shot.

John Butterworth, a serving prisoner from Royton, has admitted  driving the Francis twins to pick up the car, and overheard a conversation on the way about using weapons to retrieve £12,000 of cash from the Khan brothers after being swindled out of 'two boxes' of heroin.

Jordan Francis said this version of events was ‘not true’, and that he would not have had such a conversation in front of Mr Butterworth, who was ‘basically a stranger’.

Later, Jordan Francis said that being accused of the murder of Amran Khan by his brother Gulfan had left him ‘beyond scared’ and suicidal.

He testified that he and his twin brother Brett fled to Runcorn where they took paracetamol with vodka, slashed their wrists and jumped into a river in a bid to 'kill ourselves'. But he denied having told an ambulance woman later called to the scene that he and his brother had ‘killed someone’.

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