A brutal killer who savagely murdered a person within the sufferer's own residence was jailed for all times for the "horrible crime ".
William McLean stabbed Ryan Low 13 occasions within the deadly assault at a high flooring flat in Springbank Highway, Paisley, in Renfrewshire, on June 25 in 2020.
The sufferer's physique was solely discovered 4 days later after police broke into the flat and located him mendacity lifeless on the kitchen flooring.
McLean, 21, was a young person when he dedicated the homicide and was ordered to serve 13 and a half years in jail earlier than he can search to use for parole.
A choose advised McLean on the Excessive Court docket in Edinburgh: "On the time you carried out this horrible crime you had been nonetheless solely 19 years outdated."
Lord Richardson stated that he additionally had regard to McLean having been beforehand identified with autistic spectrum dysfunction.
The choose stated he had thought-about sufferer influence statements supplied by relations of the deceased and advised McLean: "It's all too obvious from these paperwork that your actions that day had, and proceed to have, a profound influence on his household."
The courtroom heard that former supply driver McLean has earlier convictions for offences together with assault and assault and theft and had been launched from a earlier jail time period a fortnight earlier than he carried out the homicide of Mr Low, 32.
Advocate depute John Keenan stated that it was understood that McLean had solely met Mr Low on one event previous to the deadly assault.
The prosecutor stated that Mr Low had organized to go to his sister in Edinburgh on the day that he was murdered.
He stated: "As a consequence of considerations raised by his sister the police broke into the locus on June 29 2020 and located Ryan Low lifeless, mendacity on the kitchen flooring."
On the night of June 24, McLean had been at his sufferer's dwelling with others consuming.
One man who left round midnight stated there was nothing untoward happening when he departed.
Mr Keenan stated it appeared that within the early hours on June 25 there was a disagreement between McLean and Mr Low which led to the teenager arming himself with a knife and attacking his sufferer first in the lounge after which within the adjoining kitchen.
The prosecutor stated: "The exact type and nature of the assault on the deceased on June 25 2020 will in all probability by no means be identified."
McLean later advised a household buddy: "I've went too far. I've tousled. I am lined in blood."
He stated his shorts and sneakers had been lined in blood.
He later contacted a relative and requested her to select him up in Clydebank.
"She collected him and famous he gave the impression to be beneath the affect of drink or medication. He refused to say the place he had been," stated Mr Keenan.
The courtroom heard that a blood stained knife blade was discovered down the again of a settee at Mr Low's dwelling which supplied a DNA match to the sufferer.
McLean stated throughout a police interview that he had been on the flat however claimed that when he left within the morning Mr Low was alive.
The sufferer was discovered to have died on account of a stab wound to the neck.
McLean admitted assaulting and murdering Mr Low by repeatedly stabbing him on the top and physique, throughout a courtroom look final month.
Defence counsel Thomas Ross QC stated McLean got here from a background of "extreme neglect" and was in native authority care earlier than his second birthday.
He stated he was assessed and identified with autistic spectrum dysfunction in 2016 and added: "He's, maybe on account of his situation, a person of few phrases."
The defence counsel stated that McLean was very younger on the time of the homicide and sentencing pointers for younger folks utilized to his case.
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