They then returned to High Street station, where Haig and a friend were already. The victim – from Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire – and his friends had gone into the city centre that afternoon for food at a McDonald’s restaurant. Haig was just 16 when he stabbed Justin in the heart during the daylight attack. “Violence like this has no place in our society and we will continue to work closely with our partners to bring perpetrators to justice.” Haig attacked a man with a garden fork or similar I would like to thank everyone who assisted with our inquiry. “Although today’s conviction can’t change what happened, I hope the outcome brings them at least a degree of closure. Speaking outside court, the officer in charge of the murder probe, Detective Chief Inspector Brian Geddes, said: “This was a shocking loss of a young life which has left a family devastated. The earlier incident left one teenager with serious injuries and it is claimed was the precursor to Justin’s murder.įollowing the jury’s verdict, Lord Clark told Haig: “This was a dreadful act of stabbing with a large, bladed knife that went straight through his heart.”Ī picture sent to the family of murdered Justin McLaughlin by rival gang thugs posing beside the tributes left at the scene of his death. It is believed postcode rivalries were behind the fight involving youths from the Cranhill and Bailleston areas of the city. The murder came just 24 hours after two gangs had clashed in High Street station in Glasgow city centre, where Justin was later to die.
READ MORE: Teenage thug convicted of murdering 14-year-old Justin McLaughlin at Glasgow rail station It is a family devastated by knife crime.”
He was their best friend as well as a brother. He was the character of the family – his younger brothers miss him so much.
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The family said: “Justin had his full life ahead of him.
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Justin’s family had sat through the trial and, after the verdict, paid tribute to their “blue-eyed boy”. Two months earlier the killer, now 18, had injured a man outside a bookmakers and just 48 hours later was caught carrying a knife yards from the High Court in Glasgow, where he was found guilty on Thursday. A teenage thug convicted of murdering a 14-year-old boy at a railway station had previously attacked a man with a garden spade, it can now be revealed.ĭaniel Haig fatally stabbed Justin McLaughlin in the middle of the afternoon, leaving him face down dying on the Glasgow High Street platform in October, 2021, sparking a huge emergency response.
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