Crime boss faces jail for shooting fit-up

A crime boss who persuaded a convicted murderer to wrongly confess to a celebrity nightclub shooting is facing years behind bars. John Henry Sayers, 54, convinced a convict who was serving 80 years and had ‘nothing to lose’ to admit to the ‘ride-by’ shooting at The Tup Tup Palace nightclub in Newcastle on 6 June 2015. Sayers’ lieutenant Michael Dixon, 50, was accused of aiming a single sawn-off shotgun blast at the doorman, Matthew McCauley, who was left with multiple…