The teenager accused of murdering a 16 year-old in a wooded area of East Kilbride claims he was being blackmailed by him.
As reported on PP.com, openly-gay Jack Frew was knifed to death on a cycle path in East
Kilbride's Mossneuk area in 2010.
The youth - who was locally regarded as a talented actor - attended
Duncanrig Secondary School where he was described by teachers as having a
"bright future".
According to BBC News, the sister of the accused - Robyn Roy – confirmed that her brother Craig, who admits stabbing Frew repeatedly but denies murder, told her he had slept with Frew, who had been asking him for sex and blackmailing him ever since.
Ms Roy added that her brother later admitted the sex claim was untrue, but that Frew, who was a fellow pupil at Duncanrig Secondary School in East Kilbride, had been “pestering and annoying” him for more than a year.
She also confirmed her earlier statement to police that her brother had told her, during a phone conversation, that he had slit Frew’s throat.
After the attack Roy phoned his boyfriend, Christopher Hannah, who immediately called the emergency services. Running to be with his partner, he found Roy some ten feet from Frew’s body, holding a bloodied knife.
The Daily Record reported Paramedic Robert McEwan as saying: “I could quite clearly see he had a cut wound to his neck, a nasty neck injury. It was very much close to the artery and major veins in the neck.”
The trial continues.
