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Taxi driver accused of murdering Scots amateur footie ace Craig Kearney by deliberately ‘driving over his head’

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/s ... ootie-ace/

A TAXI driver is to stand trial accused of murdering an amateur footballer by allegedly knocking him down with his car before driving over his head and body.

Derek McClinton is accused of killing Craig Kearney in East Kilbride, Lanarkshire on March 5 2017.

Prosecutors claim McClinton hit the 24 year-old with his car, knocked him to the ground before driving over his head and body.

It is alleged the 49 year-old then failed to get medical help and left Craig lying injured on the road in the dark.

Craig – who had played for AFC Bonnyholm in Glasgow's Pollok – later died.

McClinton, also of East Kilbride, faces a separate charge of then attempting to pervert the course of justice.

The includes a claim he did “continue in the course of (his) employment as a private hire taxi driver” in the car afterwards.

This is said to have allowed “video footage” taken by a device in the vehicle to be erased.

The charge also states McClinton did wash the car in “an attempt to destroy evidence”.

Donald Findlay, defending, pled not guilty on his behalf during a short hearing at the High Court in Glasgow today/yesterday.

The QC added he was ready for a trial to be set.

Prosecutor Liam Ewing QC told the court: “The estimate for length of trial is 10 days.”

Lord Arthurson set a trial due to begin in October and continued McClinton's bail.

Not wholly clear whether the incident was job-related, but obviously the driver was working at the time.

By the way, the defence QC is the same one who made the misleading claim about the HCD driving up a one-way street in the Dundee rank trial, and who effectively blamed the driver for the kick off which led to the death

Eh ? it says victim was a Craig Kearney or was he Caroline Flacks brother ?

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Maybe he had a dashcam with 'loop recording' (more or less the norm, I think), which automatically overwrites/erases the earlier stuff when the card is full?

The phrasing seems strange, though, but maybe it just means that if he'd clocked off after the incident then the dashcam footage would have been preserved

I do struggle to see how the perverting offence, in relation to the CCTV, will lead to a conviction.

Clearly the article will not have the full inns and outs, but that one is a strange one.

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Charge still stands, by the looks of it.

Had forgotten all about this one though. Nothing particularly new here, but a useful refresher.


Taxi driver to stand trial accused of 'mowing down and murdering' Craig Kearney in East Kilbride

https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/191 ... -kilbride/

TAXI driver is to stand trial later this year charged with mowing down and murdering an amateur footballer.

Derek McClinton is accused of killing Craig Kearney in East Kilbride, Lanarkshire on March 5 2017.

Prosecutors claim McClinton hit the 24 year-old with his car, knocked him to the ground before driving over his head and body.

It is alleged the 49 year-old then failed to get medical help and left Craig lying injured on the road in the dark.

Craig – who had played for AFC Bonnyholm in Glasgow's Pollok – later died.

McClinton, also of East Kilbride, faces a separate charge of then attempting to pervert the course of justice.

The includes a claim he did “continue in the course of (his) employment as a private hire taxi driver” in the car afterwards.

This is said to have allowed “video footage” taken by a device in the vehicle to be erased.

The charge also states McClinton did wash the car in “an attempt to destroy evidence”.

McClinton - represented at the time by QC Donald Findlay - originally pleaded not guilty at a hearing at the High Court in Glasgow in February 2020.

A planned trial for October last year was postponed due to the pandemic.

McClinton had then been due to face trial this week, but the Crown Office on Monday confirmed it has now been re-arranged for July.

Over four years since the incident.

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