Gang gets 81 years for vendetta murder

A GANG who murdered a man after a long-running feud has been jailed for a total of 81 years.

- By Grant McCabe

Robert Park, Raymond Platt, Craig Colquhoun and Joseph McCulloch were yesterday all convicted of a plot to kill Tony Ferns.

The 33-year-old was stabbed in the heart as he sat in his car near his mother's home.

The killing occurred in April 2019 in Thornliebank, East Renfrewshire.

Jurors heard how Mr Ferns had long blamed Park - known as "Rab" - for his disabled brother Mark being injured in a road accident seven years earlier.

There had been a number of clashes with the defendant before the victim tried call a "truce". But instead, window cleaner Park, 69, teamed up with convicted killer Platt, 56, his friend McCulloch, 50, and 39-year-old Colquhoun to kill the well-liked tiler.

Prosecutors stated Platt was the attacker, with Colquhoun the getaway driver in the Motability Audi Q2 car belonging to the mother of his then-partner.

McCulloch was said to have been helping track Mr Ferns's movements before the killing.

All four had denied being involved in the murder during a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.