Witness tells of finding teen lying on pavement
AWITNESS told how she saw a dying teenage b o y ly i n g on t he pavement after he was allegedly hit by a van that tried to run over him two more times.
Roxanne Maxwell told a murder trial how a crowd of crying and panicking people surrounded Liam Hendry as he lay on the ground near to Celtic Park.
The 32- year- old was quizzed by Liam Ewing QC over the events of the early hours of September 29, 2019.
Unable to sleep, Ms Maxwell said she went to an Esso garage on Dalmarnock Road where she met murder accused Dean Wright and Robert Farrell.
Later that morning, she claimed to hear “shouting and my door going” around 5am or 6am and found Wright, Farrell and a third man on her doorstep.
She told the court all three drank beer and took cocaine, saying of Wright: “You could tell he was full of cocaine.”
Ms Maxwell said Wright left her house to collect an order of alcohol from a dial- a- booze service before she heard “a commotion” from outside.
Wright, 32, and Farrell, 33, today went on trial at the High Court in Glasgow alleged with killing Liam by driving a van at him on Barrowfield Street in the East End.
Prosecutors claim they were
under the influence of booze and cocaine when the vehicle hit Liam and sent him into the air.
The van is then said to have been driven at Liam two more times as he lay unconscious in the road.
Liam later died of his injuries in hospital.
Ms Maxwell said: “I just heard hundreds of boys shouting.” When asked, she clarified that she meant “10 or 20” men and what she thought was a police riot van.
She followed the noise to “where the accident happened” and added: “[ Liam] was lying on the pavement... everybody was
there. Everyone was and greeting.”
Ms Maxwell, a home carer, said she returned home when the third man appeared at the back door of her house seeming “nervous and panicky” before leaving again.
Earlier the court heard from PC John Loudon who described CCTV footage to the court.
The video evidence showed Wright with a white van at the Dalmarnock Road service station talking to Ms Maxwell and two other men.
The fiscal depute also led evidence from Pauline McCann, 57, who told the court she had seen a panicking white van on Stamford Street at around 6.30am on the morning Liam was allegedly killed.
She said: “I heard talking and saw a white van outside. I noticed a guy getting into the passenger side.”
“It left without on.”
Jacqueline Donnachie, 18, also told the court she saw a white van driving along Stamford Street in the early hours of September 29, 2019.
The teenager told the court she heard arguing outside at around 4am and saw two groups of men in the street.
She said: “Somebody shouted that somebody’s got a knife.”
At around 6.15am, Ms Donnachie told the court, she saw the white van again.
She said: “I was looking out the window and saw the van coming along Barrowfield Street from the Fielding Street end.
“I had a clear view of the van. It stopped and reversed and went back down Barrowfield Street.
“It came back up again and there was a bang.”
At the start of the trial the jury heard that Liam’s cause of death was a head injury caused by a road traffic collision.
Wright and Farrell are separately accused of trying to kill four people who had been helping Liam that morning. Both deny the allegations. The trial, before judge Lord Arthurson, continues. its lights