Encrochat ‘hitman’ insists he was too stoned to carry out contract killing

A convicted killer hired by Encrochat drug barons to murder a rival told a court: ‘Nothing was ever going to happen.’ Jimmy Gottshalk, 36, and Calvin Crump, 28, allegedly offered Michael Ematuwo, 28, to shoot a fellow drug trader for £100,000. Ematuwo, who carried out a killing when he was just 12, the Old Bailey heard. He was later convicted of manslaughter and sentenced, on appeal, to four years’ detention in a young offenders’ institution, the court has heard. Peter…