Convicted drug dealer tells court: Gerbil did it

Witness tells of gangster's “confession'

- JAMES MULHOLLAND

A CONVICTED heroin dealer yesterday told a murder trial that a man accused of a fatal shooting was innocent because dead gangland thug Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll was the killer.

Carroll revealed to Alexander Sutherland that Jamie Campbell was the first person he killed, a court was told.

Sutherland, 32, told a jury that Carroll revealed he did the shooting in Glasgow's Drumchapel during a car journey.

The witness said Carroll made the claim as they passed another man called James Campbell.

He told the High Court in Edinburgh that Carroll said “There's Casper” in reference to the ghostly cartoon character.

Sutherland claimed Carroll gave the man the name because that was the name of the first person he killed and he thought it was ...fitting ... for the other Campbell”.