A MAN cleared of murder at the High Court in Glasgow last month has
himself been murdered.
Police in Greenock are investigating the death of Mr Edward McIntosh,
31, during an incident at 4am yesterday in Glenbrae Road, Greenock. His
brother William, 37, of Bouverie Street, Port Glasgow, was injured and
was treated at Inverclyde Royal Hospital. His condition last night was
described as stable.
Police gave the dead man's address as c/o Compston, Duns Place,
Greenock. They issued an appeal for information from anyone who was in
or around Glenbrae Road about 4am.
Edward McIntosh appeared at the High Court in Glasgow last month,
where murder charges against him and his cousin, Robert, 18, of Lincoln
Road, Greenock, were withdrawn midway through a trial. At that time, the
address of Mr McIntosh was given as Clydeview Road in the town.
The trial ended with William Lewis, 22, of Clydeview Road, being given
two life sentences by Lord McCluskey after he was found guilty of the
murder by stabbing of Mr John McIntyre, 34, of Gabriel Street, and Mr
Joseph McMenamin, 32, of Darndaff Road, both Greenock.
Mr Lewis's brother, Thomas, 24, also of Clydeview Road, was cleared of
the two murder charges. He was convicted of assault and causing
malicious damage and was jailed for three years.
The court had been told that violence flared at midnight on June 22
last when four cars were smashed with baseball bats in Darndaff Road by
the Lewis brothers and others.
A spokesman for Greenock CID said last night that police were keeping
an ''open mind'' on whether the two cases were connected.
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