Murder weapon could have been dumped at sea, suggests prosecutor 29/5/13
A weapon used to murder Liam Aitchison could have been at sea it was suggested at a murder trial in Glasgow today.
Stefan Millar and Johnathan Mackinnon, 22, of Stornoway, deny murdering 16-
Mr Millar was being cross examined by prosecutor Iain McSporran at Glasgow High Court.
Mr McSporran said the two accused returned to Mackinnon’s house in Plasterfield after “you say you were at Fusion and I say you were at Steinish.”
Mr Millar said they both took off their wet clothes and left them in front of the washing machine because they were wet.
The prosecutor asked if Mr Mackinnon was very near the hospital but walks home and “wakes his mum to take him back up to the hospital, but he changes his clothes first.”
Stefan Millar replied: “Yes.“
Mr McSporran maintained that a later “out of the blue” phone call soon afterwards from Mr Mackinnon to Stephanie Flannigan was just a “ruse.”
He said no kind of murder weapon was ever recovered.
He asked: “Where did you think it went. Where would be a good place to get rid of it?”
“On the moor,” said Mr Millar.
“Or at sea,” replied the prosecutor to the fisherman.
“Did you dispose of items at sea,“ he asked.
“No,” responded Mr Millar.
The prosecutor asked what clothes belonging to Mr Mackinnon was Liam wearing.
Mr Millar said he had on Mr Mackinnon’s top, trousers and trainers.
Mr McSporran suggested these items of clothes he said were removed off Mr Aitchison’s body belonged to Johnathan Mackinnon.
Mr Millar said Liam’s socks and T-
The prosecutor said: “Why did you not say that to begin with. Why not say a “complete change of clothing”
The prosecutor wondered “why you are changing your position” regarding the clothes.
Mr McSporran said the Crown case is that “at a time when Johnathan Mackinnon had a bleeding wound” he and Mr Millar went with Liam into 17 Steinish and then Liam was struck on the head with a bottle, sustained injuries to his head, and was stabbed repeatedly to death.
“And you participated in that,” he maintained.
Mr Millar stated: “It never happened.“
“After Johnathan inflicted fatal injuries did he get you to stab Liam as well,” asked Mr McSporran.
“No,” stated Mr Millar, who insisted they never killed the teenager.