A man who “abandoned” his friend to die outside a hospital from a knife wound which could have been treated has been jailed for nine and a half years.
Ben McCulloch, 28, killed Stephen Quigley, 26, at his home in Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, on March 23, 2021. The High Court in Edinburgh heard how McCulloch and Mr Quigley had been socialising with each other in the moments leading up to the fatal assault.
McCulloch struck his victim, who lived in Neilston in East Renfrewshire, on the side of the head with a blade. The attacker - a disqualified driver - then drove Mr Quigley to a closed section of Paisley’s Royal Alexandra Hospital and left him in a “secluded” part of the medical facility’s grounds.
