Willie Mc Keeney’s killers lose appeal hearing in Glasgow

Two teenagers who murdered a Donegal Man in a street attack in Glasgow have failed to have their convictions overturned.
21 year old Asif Rehman and 2o year old Adel Ishaq were jailed for a minimum of 16 years for the murder of 57-year-old William McKeeney in Pollokshields nearly two years ago.
Mr McKeeney’s partner, Annemarie Newlands, found his body in the street after the savage attack. She told the two men’s trial she had seen two Asian men “stamping on something” moments earlier.
Mr McKeeney, originally from Malin taken to Glasgow’s Victoria Infirmary after the attack in January 2012, but died later.
STV reports that lawyers acting for Rehman and Ishaq told the Court of Criminal Appeal that trial judge Lord Uist had misdirected the jury.
They claimed the judge failed to explain to the jury what evidence was needed to secure a conviction, arguing there was enough reasonable doubt to acquit their clients.
However, last evening, appeal court judges Lord Carloway, Lord Drummond Young and Lord Kingarth ruled that the trial judge had acted correctly, and the appeal was refused.