Justin McLaughlin, 14, died in October 2021 after being stabbed in the heart by Daniel Haig in Glasgow.
"They are left with dreadful loss you have caused for the rest of their lives,""Justin McLaughlin was only 14, a child, and he was getting back on his feet when you stabbed him. He was in a defenceless position."Image source,The court heard Haig had become involved in a scuffle with Justin and a group of his friends at the railway station on 16 October 2021.Justin tripped and fell before Haig caught up and stabbed him.
Haig told the trial that he had a knife in his rucksack for "protection" after claiming to have been attacked the day before.Defence counsel John Scullion KC said that his client "bitterly regrets his actions and the tragic consequences for the deceased and his family".The court had previously heard that Justin, from Coatbridge in North Lanarkshire, had begged for his mother after being attacked.Justin's family said their lives would never be the same after his murder.
"He was the character of the family, his younger brothers miss him so much. He was their best friend as well as their brother," they said.Prosecutor Moira Orr, head of homicide and major crime for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, said knives were blighting communities and destroying young lives.
"This case is tragic evidence of the destruction wreaked when young people carry bladed weapons," she said.
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