Four guilty of murdering man by stab wound to heart
Four men were imprisoned for killing a man who left his girlfriend out of his house in East Renfrewshire.
33 -year -old Tony Ferns wounded the heart while sitting in his car in Thornliebank in April 2019.
After the attack, he managed to take a short distance to the house he shared with his mother, but then he died because of their injuries.
39 -year -old Craig Colquuhoun, 56 -year -old Raymond Plat, 50 -year -old Joseph McCulloch and 69 -year -old Robert Park, Glasgow’daki Supreme Court after a hearing unanimously found guilty of the murder.
All four refused to interfere with the murder.
Mr. Ferns accused the 69 -year -old Robert Park, who planned the murder, for injuring his disabled brother in a traffic accident.
While the park was imprisoned for 20 years, Platt, who stabbed Mr. Ferns, was imprisoned for 23 years.
The escape driver Colquuhoun was imprisoned for 20 years and McCulloch was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
All four were sentenced to one hour after being found guilty of the murder.
The trial, a window cleaner, the park, the convicted killer platform and plans to kill Mr. Ferns, who works as a tile.
Colquuhoun served as a escape driver in a motivation car of his mother’s mother.
Meanwhile, McCulloch was said to have helped to watch Mr. Ferns’s movements before he killed.
Mr. Ferns’s partner Angela McCann told him how he could see how life exhausted “after the attack on the hearing.
When a man approached his vehicle, he dropped Mrs. McCann out of his house after a shift in a market.
Ms. McCann, who looked at her sister, had entered to get in to get her house with Mr. Ferns.
He told the court that he saw a man in his wife’s window, but he was not worried as “Tony knows everyone” and believed it was a friend.
Mr. Ferns heard that the car suddenly screamed and that the car was heading towards the nearby house, shared with his mother Phylisss and stopped here.
Mr. Ferns was depicted with his mother Phyllis [Police Scotland]
Mrs. McCann said he could not “understand” and said, “Angie, I was stabbed,” he remembered to shout at Mr. Ferns.
He said he was looking for 999 and holding a towel to the wound to mislead the bleeding.
A pathologist told the court that he died of the heart of the heart.
Dr. Mortem after the examination of the body. Gemma Kemp said that a “violent” power level would be necessary to give the hearing a deadly coup.
Phyllis Ferns said in a description of the victim effect, “loss and the lasting effect of his son’s death”.
Long -lasting blood feud
The court heard how Mark’s brother Mark accused Park, known as the Lord for being injured in a traffic accident.
Mr. Ferns thought that he made the “phone call” that brought the car to the street and overthrew his brother.
Mark, who was blindly registered, died in 2017.
The hearing was told that there were a series of conflicts between the two men, including a example that Mr. Ferns punched Park.
On another occasion, Mr. Ferns and a friend were attacked by two men who used swords and bats while sitting in a van.
While Mr. Ferns believed that one of the men involved was a park, the other was McCulloch, but this was not confirmed.
Later, in 2017, a bookmaker was called a “ceasefire” after a meeting.
Mr. Ferns’ mother told his son to his son: “You were being killed. I will make a phone call and call them.”
Park lawyers claimed that Mr. Ferns was “fixed” with him, and said that Park was forced to move the house as a result, but this was not verified.
‘Pre -planned assassination’
Lord Fairley, who was convicted, described killing as a “targeted and previously planned assassination”.
Platt had previously encountered two trials for crimes related to the knife.
In 1995, he was cleared of stabbing Daniel Harley in a taxi office of Glavow in Glavi.
In 2000, in the same region of the city, 20 -year -old Marc Hayes’ body on the carpet “was found guilty of the murder, but the judges of appeal then broke this conviction.
Instead, Platt was found guilty of criminal murder on the eve of a re -trial and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Raymond Platt was thrown into prison for 23 years on the left, Craig Colquhoun was thrown into imprisonment for 18 years on the right [Police Scotland]
In addition, he was imprisoned for nine years in 2013 due to the attempt to kill Edward Bennett in Govan, but was released at the beginning of four years of August 2018.
“Tony left his girlfriend to his apartment when he was attacked.
“This witnessed by his mother and both by his girlfriend, who was devastated by what they saw that day.
“Our thoughts are with them, other family members and Tony’s friends. I hope now they feel a kind of closure that justice is done.”
