Sean Welsh said his family was kept in the dark in the hours after his brother Bradley was gunned down on his doorstep.
As Bradley Welsh lay dead outside his Edinburgh home, Sean said it took several hours for police to inform him what had happened.
Bradley was shot shortly after 8pm on April 17, 2019, and paramedics pronounced him dead around 30 minutes later.
Sean said: “A Champions League match had just started and I was at home watching that.
“My wife got a call from Brad’s wife. She was screaming that something had happened.
“I jumped in the car and went right to the scene. We were kept behind a cordon and nobody would tell us what was going on. There were paramedics there and armed police everywhere.
“The police just kept telling us to wait and someone would come to see us.
“They kept putting the cordon back to keep people away, but let us stay at the initial cordon.
“Eventually police took Brad’s wife and daughter out of their house.
“They couldn’t take them out the front door because Brad was still there.
“They had to be taken out the back garden and through another garden.
“We only found out Brad had been shot because police officers at the scene that night texted their pals. Those people texted other pals and it eventually got back to us.
“It was about 1am when we were told he was dead. It was devastating.”
Countdown to doorstep killing
February 20, 2019 Sean Orman released from prison.
March 9 Ford Kuga linked to Orman drives round car park at Bradley Welsh’s gym on Duddingston Road West at 7.33pm.
March 16 Orman accidentally shoots hole in floor of Duddingston flat while showing shotgun to Dean White.
March 18 White calls Police Scotland to tell them about Orman’s plot to kill Welsh.
March 20 White gives police a statement about Orman’s plans and armed police raid Duddingston flat.
April 7 Ford Kuga twice drives past Welsh’s home at 1.29pm before returning again at 11.37pm.
April 9 Welsh leaves his gym at 7.32pm and Kuga appears in car park 21 minutes later.
April 17, 2019
7.46pm Welsh leaves his gym to drive home.
8.03pm Orman shoots Welsh on his doorstep.
8.24pm Armed police arrive outside Welsh’s home.
8.43pm Kuga arrives in Kirknewton, West Lothian. Orman phones a friend to drive him back from Kirkliston to capital.
April 22 Police try to pull over Orman in Audi but he flees and leads them on 21-minute high-speed chase before being arrested.
M ay 7, 2020 Orman convicted of murdering Welsh.
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