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People who carry knives should be taken to a morgue to be shown what their weapons can do, according to the father of a West Lothian murder victim.People who carry knives should be taken to a morgue to be shown what their weapons can do, according to the father of a West Lothian murder victim.
Bill Jenkins spoke out after two men were jailed for life for the unprovoked attack on his son, John Jenkins.Bill Jenkins spoke out after two men were jailed for life for the unprovoked attack on his son, John Jenkins.
Mr Jenkins, 27, was attacked as he walked to work in Livingston last year.Mr Jenkins, 27, was attacked as he walked to work in Livingston last year.
His killers were given minimum jail terms of 10 and 15 years at the High Court in Edinburgh - a sentence branded a "joke" by the victim's family.His killers were given minimum jail terms of 10 and 15 years at the High Court in Edinburgh - a sentence branded a "joke" by the victim's family.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard he had been in the wrong place at the wrong time. John Edgar, 24, and his cousin David McCaig, 18, were high on alcohol and returning from a funeral when they attacked the 27-year-old chef who was on his way to work.
David McCaig, 18, and John Edgar, 23, will serve 10 and 15 years in jail respectively before they can be considered for parole. Edgar of Scotstoun, Glasgow, was told he must serve 15 years before he can apply for parole and McCaig of Livingston, was locked up for at least 10 years
I believe in taking them to the morgue and showing them what they have done Bill JenkinsVictim's father The High Court in Edinburgh heard Mr Jenkins had been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
John Jenkins was attacked in December 2007 in Livingston
The judge, Lord Craik, said they were both responsible for the brutal and gratuitous death of an innocent young man.The judge, Lord Craik, said they were both responsible for the brutal and gratuitous death of an innocent young man.
However, the Jenkins family dismissed the minimum sentences as "a joke".However, the Jenkins family dismissed the minimum sentences as "a joke".
"I don't think justice was served in here today," said Mr Jenkins, 54."I don't think justice was served in here today," said Mr Jenkins, 54.
"I don't think any of Gordon Brown's ideas are going to do anything. To me, you should get the same sentence for carrying a knife as carrying a gun.""I don't think any of Gordon Brown's ideas are going to do anything. To me, you should get the same sentence for carrying a knife as carrying a gun."
He said taking offenders to visit hospitals would just put staff there under more pressure. He said taking offenders to visit victims in hospitals would just put staff there under more pressure.
"I believe in taking them to the morgue and showing them what they have done," added Mr Jenkins."I believe in taking them to the morgue and showing them what they have done," added Mr Jenkins.
Describing how he had to identify his son's body, he added: "It is the hardest thing I have ever had to do in my life." Describing how he had to identify his son's body, he said: "It is the hardest thing I have ever had to do in my life."
The victim's twin sister, Mary, 27, said her brother was "a gentleman".
The family said they had never known him even raise his voice to anyone.The family said they had never known him even raise his voice to anyone.
"He would give you the last £1 in his pocket or the shirt off his back," said Mary. The victim's twin sister, Mary, 27, said her brother was "a gentleman".
"He would give you the last £1 in his pocket or the shirt off his back," she said.
'Play-fighting'
The trial heard that four of the nine serious stab wounds were potentially fatal and McCaig kicked and punched the dying man.
The attackers then walked away shouting and "play-fighting" with each other before throwing the knife down a drain.
Mr Jenkins' sister, Janet, 33, told how her brother often visited to play football with her son and other kids in the street.
He left her Livingston home on 1 December last year but took a different route that Saturday morning because he needed to buy lighter fuel for his work at a nearby shop.
The store's CCTV showed John Jenkins there at 0830 BST and 11 minutes later a paramedic was pronouncing him dead at the Loan Path in the Ladywell district of the West Lothian town.
Advocate depute Simon Collins, prosecuting, said there had been no time for an argument to develop.
"There seems to have been no motive other than the desire by the attackers to inflict extreme violence on another human being," he told the jury.