A killer is dealing with a life sentence after brutally murdering a person earlier than stating "I've went too far."
William McLean stabbed Ryan Low 13 occasions in a deadly knife assault on the sufferer's dwelling in Springbank Street, Paisley, in Renfrewshire, on June 25 in 2020.
McLean, who has a prison report that features offences of assault and assault and theft, had been launched from an 18-month sentence of detention a fortnight earlier than he struck.
McLean was a teen on the time however appeared as a 21-year-old on the Excessive Court docket in Edinburgh on Wednesday to confess murdering his sufferer by repeatedly stabbing him on the pinnacle and physique right now.
The court docket heard that Mr Low, 32, had organized to go to his sister in Edinburgh however after she raised issues police broke into the Paisley flat the place he lived alone and located him mendacity lifeless on the kitchen ground.
On the night on June 24 in 2020, Mr Low was at dwelling within the firm of McLean and others ingesting. One man later left and mentioned that at the moment nothing untoward was occurring.
Advocate depute John Keenan mentioned: "The exact particulars of what occurred thereafter are unknown however plainly within the early hours of the morning after he had left there was a disagreement between the accused and Ryan Low."
The prosecutor mentioned McLean had armed himself with a knife and stabbed his sufferer in the lounge earlier than persevering with the assault within the kitchen.
"The exact kind and nature of the assault on the deceased on June 25 in 2020 will most likely by no means be identified," mentioned Mr Keenan.
McLean, a former supply driver, later bought a bus to Glasgow and phoned a household pal to inform her that he had tousled and was coated in blood.
Mr Keenan mentioned: "About 11 am he known as his mom and requested her to choose him up in Clydebank. She collected him and famous he gave the impression to be beneath the affect of drink or medicine. He refused to say the place he had been."
McLean was later interviewed by police as a witness and admitted he was at Mr Low's flat however claimed he was alive when he left.
Mr Low's DNA was discovered on a blood-stained knife blade found down the again of a settee on the flat.
"The findings could possibly be defined if this blade had been used to stab Ryan Low," mentioned Mr Keenan.
A submit mortem was carried out on the deceased and it was discovered that among the many accidents had been 4 stab wounds to the neck, two of which broken jugular veins. The stab wounds to the neck had been thought of to be the primary consider his dying.
Mr Low was additionally discovered to have sustained defensive wounds in an try to guard himself from the knife attacker.
McLean's defence counsel Thomas Ross QC mentioned: "He has pled responsible to homicide within the sure data that he will probably be sentenced to life imprisonment."
The choose, Lord Richardson, who must set a minimal time period McLean should serve beneath a life sentence mentioned he had dedicated a "horrible homicide".
Sentence was deferred on him till subsequent month for the preparation of a background report. McLean was remanded in custody.
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