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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Neil Pooran

Murder victim was run over in ‘mistaken identity’ before machete attack

Two men admitted murdering Alexander McQuillan, the High Court in Glasgow heard (Andrew Milligan/PA) - (PA Archive)

One of the men who admitted the murder of another man in Inverclyde drove at him in a “grotesque” case of mistaken identity, a court has heard.

Alexander McQuillan, 27, and Richard Mullan, 21, had earlier admitted the murder of 35-year-old Michael Beaton.

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