Man died after loud car music row

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A man collapsed and died after confronting a teenager who was playing music too loud on his car stereo, a court has heard.

James Connery, 68, suffered a heart attack outside his Edinburgh home after confronting 18-year-old Scott McMillan.

Father-of-two Mr Connery, a cousin of actor Sir Sean Connery, was taken to hospital but died soon after.

At Edinburgh Sheriff Court, McMillan admitted breaching the peace. He will be sentenced next month.

The court was told Mr Connery had been eating dinner with his partner Irene Bell on 1 May last year when they heard loud music coming from a car outside his bungalow in the city's Prestonfield Avenue.

Fiscal depute Gillian More said Mr Connery went outside to speak to the driver about the noise and asked him to turn the volume down but McMillan replied that he would turn it up instead.

Mrs More added: "He told [McMillan] that playing loud music at all hours and driving up and down the street was making everyone's life in the street hell."

Retired scaffolder Mr Connery, who had suffered five previous heart attacks, then turned to walk away from McMillan and collapsed.

He told [McMillan] that playing loud music at all hours and driving up and down the street was making everyone's life in the street hell Gillian MoreFiscal depute

A neighbour and Ms Bell, 61, had tried to resuscitate Mr Connery, and the neighbour had asked McMillan to turn the music off. He refused and turned up the volume, said the fiscal.

McMillan, now aged 19, admitted breaching the peace by playing music from his car, refusing to turn the volume down and shouting and swearing, all to the alarm and annoyance of residents.

His car was seized and he told police he had played his music through four speakers in his car as he parked near his girlfriend's house.

When asked why he had not turned the music down he told police he did not think it was particularly loud, Mrs More said.

Defence agent Jim Stephenson said McMillan, who works as a bricklayer's mate, now agreed his behaviour had been "totally unacceptable" and that the music had been far too loud.

McMillan, of Kirkhill Drive, Edinburgh, will be sentenced next month.

Sir Sean Connery's father Joseph was the brother of Mr Connery's dad James.