A grieving aunt believes her nephew would still be alive if his killer had been arrested by police hours earlier over an alleged assault in a playpark.
Barry Dixon, 22, died after Robbie Smullen, 24, plunged a knife into his heart in the early hours of June 4, 2019. Smullen was jailed at Edinburgh High Court for nine years and three months on a reduced charge of culpable homicide in April 2021.
After Smullen was charged in connection with the death, Barry’s family say they were contacted by locals who allege police were called to an assault involving Smullen at a playpark on Carnegie Place in Perth - less than a mile from the Wallace Court flat where Barry was killed. The witnesses claimed they saw Smullen strike another man and drag him around by the legs.
