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John-Paul Clark

Baby-faced Scots killer's chilling Snapchat video moments before stabbing neighbour to death

This is the chilling Snapchat video baby-faced killer Jack McBride filmed goading his neighbour moments before stabbing him to death.

McBride, who was 17 at the time, knifed Johnny Winters, 26, in the heart during a confrontation in the street in Johnstone, Renfrewshire on April 1, 2020.

He was found guilty of culpable homicide at the High Court in Glasgow today and detained for six years and eight months.

McBride started the social media blitz with a screenshot of a message he’d sent Winters, confronting him over their feud.

Chilling Snapchat posts were shared by Jack McBride before he killed his victim (UGC)

He then went to Winters’ home in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, and filmed himself goading him to come out of his flat in the High Street.

The thug shared the chilling video as a live stream for his followers.

In the footage McBride shouts to his victim "Johnny, come down".

Victim Winters can be heard replying: "Who is that?"

McBride then shouts back: "It's Jack McBride come down.

Winters responds: "Come up" and is told "come down, come down the alleyway", by McBride.

McBride then shared a selfie and bragged it was “game time” seconds before the fatal stabbing.

Johnny Winters was stabbed through the heart by McBride (UGC)

Winters arrived in the street armed with a hatchet and struck McBride with the blunt side of it.

McBride then stabbed him through the heart with a kitchen knife and ran off.

The killing on April 1, 2020, happened less than a month after Winters had appeared in court charged with possessing a knife and ­threatening violence.

He and McBride were locked in a feud amid claims Winters had torched the door of McBride’s home.

McBride sent Winters a ­Facebook message challenging him.

He wrote: “See ur burd Natasha tell her to wind her neck in chanting she knows ma sister as if she’s gonna do stn cause she’s ur bird fs she’ll do ntn neither will u.”

McBride also called his ­ex-girlfriend and said: “You think I cannot kill someone. You think my bark is bigger than my bite.

“Johnny Winters thinks he is a name. I will be a name.”

In the video before the killing, McBride appears to refer to the fire attack, saying, “it’s funny, the same thing that got scudded through the wall when my gaff got set on fire is still f***ing there” while pointing at what looks like a piece of metal.

The video reveals he then headed to Winters’ home and said: “Doesnae answer the door, I’ll f***ing shout up at your f***ing windae then in front of the High Street.

“Johnny, come ’ere. Johnny, come doon.”

Winters can be heard asking who it is, and McBride replies: “It’s Jack McBride, come doon.”

Baby faced killer Jack McBride was sentenced today (Handout)

Winters replies, “’mon up”, trying to get McBride to head upstairs to his flat.

But McBride replies: “Naw, come doon. Come doon tae the alleyway.”

Prosecutor Neil McCulloch told a court: “McBride can be seen in the recording shouting up at the window demanding he come out.”

The video ends with the ‘game time’ selfie.

Winters’ friend Adam Gallagher told the court how he saw the pair “squaring up” to each other.

He said: “I was saying to Jack to go back to his house and asking what he was doing. I was trying to get him to see sense.

“Johnny had his new jacket on and I saw the material inside of it coming out. I asked: “Did he stab you?” He said, ‘No’, then his face changed, he went all weird...and that was that.”

He added: “He collapsed and I caught him. I was talking to him, trying to stop the blood. He was staring at the sky.”

After his death Johnny’s heartbroken family paid their respects on Facebook.

His sister Lisa-Marie Winters wrote: “Can’t believe I’m writing this but my wee brother Johnny passed away.

“Love you so much Johnny bhoy and always will.

“Absolutely heartbroken, still can’t believe it.”

His partner Natasha Cameron added: “Love you always Johnny Winters. I’ll do you proud for our baby. Fly high my boy. Love you always. RIP GBNF.

“This is a hard time for me lisa and his dad we loved this boy to infinity.

“Words can’t explain what we feel right now.”

Jack McBride was found guilty at the High Court in Edinburgh today and detained for six years and eight months.

McBride had gone on trial at the High Court in Glasgow for murder but the inmate at YOI Polmont decided to plead guilty to a charge of culpable homicide.

Sentencing was deferred to the High Court in Edinburgh and Judge Lady Haldane told McBride that she had no other option but to detain him in custody.

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