Martin Ready conspired to murder Darren Harty by using cryptocurrency to pay for a hitman on the dark web. Ready told a court he believed the murder would expose organised crime in Coatbridge.
The sentencing of a man who plotted to kill a prosecutor while claiming to be suffering from delusions that he was “evil Jesus” has been postponed.
Between May 2021 and September 2022, Ready paid £5,071.24 in Bitcoin and sent instructions for Mr Harty to be shot on a dark website called Online Killers Market, which turned out to be fraudulent. The men knew each other from the pub, but the court heard they had not seen each other for years before the plot.
On Tuesday, sentencing was postponed at the High Court in Edinburgh, due to lack of availability at the Rowanbank Clinic medium secure unit in Glasgow.Defending, Richard Goddard KC said: “I would invite the court to deal with this in his absence. I gather case was continued to whether bed was available. Unfortunately, it would appear that Rowanbank has not confirmed if a bed was available.”Judge Lady Hood said: “In unfortunate circumstances there’s been some sort of mix-up.
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