Teen is jailed after killing young man
ATEENAGE killer who stabbed a young man in the heart during a row has been jailed for five years. Steven Gilmour was just 17 when he attacked Daryll Wright at a house in Kilwinning on May 22, 2021. Darryl, 20, of Coatbridge, never recovered and passed away in hospital.
Gilmour – now 18 – was sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow having earlier pleaded guilty to a charge of culpable homicide.
Lady Stacey told him: “I accept you feel remorse, but it must have been obvious, even to a boy of 17, that stabbing someone with a knife is a very dangerous thing to do.
“The tragedy is both you and Darryl Wright were setting out in life and you took his away.”
Gilmour will also be supervised for two years upon his release.
A hearing last month was told how a number of young men and women had gathered at the house.
Gilmour had turned up uninvited but was allowed in. He got into a fight with Darryl, which also saw the victim being hit with a stool and a bike hurled towards him.
Prosecutor Leanne Cross said: “Both ended up on the floor. Gilmour was seen to get up and back away. It was seen that he had a knife in his hand.”
Gilmour dropped the weapon and fled the scene. Daryll was also initially able to get up and went outside
before collapsing in an alleyway.
The victim was described as being in a “bad way”. A girl was heard screaming as she raced to help him.
Miss Cross said: “He begged her not to let him die and to call 999.”
Daryll was rushed to Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock.
He had a stab wound to the chest and to his inner left thigh.
Daryll went on to suffer a heart attack and ended up in intensive care. He never recovered and passed away on May 24.
The court heard Gilmour had initially fled to his own home nearby in Kilwinning. He went on to message a girl on Snapchat and admitted he had been “fighting” with Daryll.
Gilmour was later charged with murder and bailed by a sheriff.
But he ended up behind bars amid claims that he then assaulted another man in Kilwinning and brandished a blade at him on New Year’s Day 2022.
Gilmour faced those charges at the hearing last month, but prosecutors accepted his not guilty plea.