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| Trio guilty of pub fatal shooting | |
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| Three men have been found guilty of a double shooting at a pub in Edinburgh which left one man dead. | |
| Former boxing champion Alex McKinnon was shot in the back and died after the attack at the Marmion pub in April. | |
| James Bain, 22, Richard Cosgrove, 21, and Bernard Young, 19, were all found guilty at the High Court in Edinburgh. | James Bain, 22, Richard Cosgrove, 21, and Bernard Young, 19, were all found guilty at the High Court in Edinburgh. |
| After the verdicts were delivered the court was adjourned because of repeated outbursts from family and friends of the victim and the accused. | |
| Nine female and six male jurors returned the verdicts on Thursday morning. | |
| The men, who will be sentenced at a later date, had denied murdering Mr McKinnon in the bar on Saturday, 22 April. They had further denied attempting to murder 27-year-old James Hendry. | |
| The double shooting was branded "cold-blooded murder and attempted murder" by those prosecuting the case. | |
| Bain and Cosgrove donned identical black hooded tops and silver masks before entering the busy bar in Gilmerton shortly before closing time. | |
| Bantamweight champion | |
| Bain pulled the trigger while his accomplice was dubbed an "active participant" by the Crown. | |
| The gunshots caused pub-goers to run for cover. | |
| In the chaos, Mr McKinnon, a former Scottish bantamweight boxing champion, lay unconscious near the bar in his blood-soaked shirt. | |
| His brother-in-law, Mr Hendry, was left fighting for his life after a shot to his chest. | |
| Mr Hendry, a married father-of-three, gave evidence at the trial. | |
| The victims were targeted in an Edinburgh bar | |
| Moments after the attack, Mr McKinnon's wife arrived at the pub, expecting to join her brother and husband of 12 years for a night out. | |
| Instead, the mother-of-two, from Gilmerton, Edinburgh, found them being taken away in an ambulance. By the Sunday morning, Mr McKinnon had died. | |
| The court heard he had such massive damage to his heart that he could never have survived the close-range attack. | |
| More than 40 detectives were called in to investigate the killing and as many as 80 uniformed officers were put on duty in the area to reassure residents. | |
| At the trial, the three consistently denied guilt but DNA samples linked Bain to the scene. | |
| Serious wounds | |
| Bain was left seriously ill and unconscious after an attempt was made on his life following the shooting. | |
| He ended up in hospital with serious wounds to his head and face after being found in the Gilmerton Dykes area. | |
| He claimed he was left with no memory of events that day. | |
| Cosgrove claimed he was forced at gunpoint to accompany Bain to the pub and was fearful for his life. | |
| However, jurors found that he too was guilty of the murder. | |
| In returning a third guilty verdict, they also backed the Crown's assertion that Young was an accessory to the crime. |