A council worker who carried out a horror murder bid on his father on a busy street has been jailed for six years. Stewart McMeekin leapt out his van and turned on Thomas McMeekin in Broomlands Street, Paisley in Renfrewshire on May 6 2021.
The 27 year-old was armed with two blades and repeatedly stabbed Thomas. First offender McMeekin was today sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow having pled guilty to an attempted murder charge in January.
Builder Thomas, then 50, was working that morning along with a young apprentice. The attack occurred in broad daylight near a polling station on election day Thomas had gone to a local shop at the same time his son was spotted alone in his Renfrewshire Council van.
