Two members of a crime gang behind the execution of a man shot dead in a Glasgow street are appealing against their “super Asbos” from prison.
John Kennedy, 42, and Darren Eadie, 31, were convicted in February of murdering Kenny Reilly in the city’s Maryhill area in April 2018.
Kennedy was ordered to serve a minimum of 26 years for the shooting, while Eadie was handed 24 years.
The pair were also hit with Serious Crime Prevention Orders (SCPO), designed to monitor and restrict the activities of criminals when they are released from jail.
They became the first Scots serving life sentences to be slapped with the orders.
Lawyers for Eadie and Kennedy appeared at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh on Thursday to argue the orders should be discharged.
Eadie appeared via video link while Kennedy declined to take part in the hearing before judges Lord Pentland, Lord Carloway and Lord Boyd.
Graeme Brown, representing Kennedy, said his client’s appeal against conviction and length of sentence had already been thrown out, and he wouldn’t be eligible for parole until November 2045.
Mr Brown said Kennedy would only be released when the Parole Board were “satisfied that he was no longer a risk to the public”.
The lawyer said this situation was “incongruous” with a SCPO being imposed.
Mr Brown said the Chief Constable of Police Scotland or Lord Advocate in 2045 could apply for an order when Kennedy was granted parole.
He added any judge would then be “aware of any inevitable technological advances” which could be used to monitor Kennedy at that time.
Solicitor advocate Ann Ogg, representing Eadie, said it was “unnecessary and disproportionate” to impose the order on her client as it would be 24 years at least before it could be enforced.
Ms Ogg, who said Kennedy’s circumstances would have changed by then, adding a “judge’s armoury does not include a crystal ball”.
Principal Crown Counsel Ashley Edwards KC said the Crown were inviting the judges to refuse the appeal.
Ms Edwards said lawyers for Eadie and Kennedy could always apply to the court to have the orders discharged or changed in the future.
The judges asked for any additional arguments to be lodged by both sides within 14 days and reserved their ruling for a later date.
Kennedy was the shooter when Reilly was targeted as he sat in a car at traffic lights with a friend.
Eadie along with his father Morton Eadie, Kennedy and Ross Fisher were sentenced to minimum terms of imprisonment totalling 94 years for the fatal shooting.
Morton Eadie, 56, and Fisher, 31, were each ordered to serve at least 22 years.
Jurors watched CCTV of the brutal murder which showed Kennedy exit the rear of a Ford S-Max and fire six shots from an automatic pistol towards a BMW which Reilly was in.
The gang fled to locations such as Mexico, Jamaica and Spain in the aftermath of the assassination as they tried to avoid justice.
The trial heard the killing was linked to a feud between rival factions in the Possilpark and Maryhill areas of Glasgow.
Detectives believe Reilly’s killing was linked to an earlier assault he had carried while the murder trial heard claims he owed £100,000 to a high-profile criminal.
