Jurors previously heard Stewart, the 15-year-old and Turley were part of the Murray Boys gang from East Kilbride in South Lanarkshire. <\/p>\n
Moy and his friends were stated to be from the rival Himshie group.<\/p>\n
Findlay addressed the gang background but said being in a gang should not mean facing the consequences for a murder. <\/p>\n
He told the jury that the Crown relied on Fraser Wallace – who was visited by the trio after the fatal stabbing – for their case but added the witness had lied “more than once”.<\/p>\n
Findlay said the lies were “cold, calculated and despicable” and the jury should not let him “get away with it.”<\/p>\n
He also claimed another witness wrongly told jurors Stewart was seen with a knife that day. The witness later admitted to reading this on social media.<\/p>\n
Jurors previously heard Turley and the 15-year-old put up their hoods on arrival to Irvine by train.<\/p>\n
But Findlay said Stewart did not do this as he had nothing to hide.<\/p>\n
Findlay said his client was seen with an extendable baton at the beach because he was trying to look scary<\/p>\n
And he added that did not mean he was looking to stab anyone. <\/p>\n
The advocate told the jury his client did not know the extent of Moy’s stabbing and that he “celebrated” it.<\/p>\n
He added: “The fact is he was behaving like an idiot afterwards…he was waving his baton around trying to look scary but I am not suggesting he is a nice young man or looking for approval or anything like that.<\/p>\n
“He was not involved in the death of Kayden Moy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jurors previously heard Stewart, the 15-year-old and Turley were part of the Murray Boys gang from East Kilbride…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-619646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}