Daniel Haig stabbed Justin McLaughlin in the heart and left him to die at Glasgow's High Street train station in October 2021.
A teenager jailed for the “appalling” murder of a schoolboy has succeeded in having the minimum term he’ll have to serve for his life sentence reduced.
Defence advocate Michael Meehan KC told appeal judges Lady Dorrian, Lord Matthews and Lord Pentland that their colleague Lord Clark had made mistakes in how he decided to sentence Haig. Lady Dorrian - who delivered the judgement - wrote that she and her colleagues had evidence before them about Haig’s background that Lord Clark didn’t have.Lady Dorrian said that Haig should be given a 13 year long punishment part.
The killer inflicted the single fatal blow after Justin tripped and fell during a chase at the station in October 2021. She wrote: “The information now available to the court shows exposure to extreme domestic violence from an early age, first as a witness, later as a victim, and thereafter as a perpetrator.
“It is clear that the appellant has grown up in a familial environment in which the use of violence, including the use of weapons, has been normalised.”
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