Police collar accused carrying two kitchen knives
A woman who photographed her pal standing over the body of a man he stabbed 80 times has been jailed for her own blade rap.
Irene Duncan, 29, has been caged after she was spotted in the street with two large kitchen knives.
She was just a teenager when friend Stephen Price murdered Scott Burgess.
The yob admitted the latest offence during a hearing at Paisley Sheriff Court.
Prosecutor Keri Marshall told how she was seen clutching the weapons.
She said: “A witness heard what she thought to be a disturbance outside her home address.
“She looked out of her window and witnessed the now accused exit the common close.
“She saw the accused holding two large kitchen knives at around waist height.
“Police were contacted and when they arrived they saw the accused run through the back and out of sight.”
Duncan armed herself and was seen heading into Bank Street.
Police rushed to the street on September 6.
She tried to leg it through a close to escape but was collared in a garden holding a Celtic top.
Officers recovered two knives and a screwdriver.
Duncan was 18 when evil Price murdered Scott in a motiveless attack in 2007.
The killer forced his way into the man’s flat and locked the door.
He then carried out a “frenzied and sustained” assault.
Duncan’s sister Karen, then 17, stabbed the victim twice with a screwdriver during the horror.
Price then posed with his body while Duncan took a picture.
They left and Price got in a bath with Karen – where they splashed in his blood.
The gang later returned and tried to hide the crime by hauling Scott’s body upstairs in a tub filled with bleach.
The trio cut out bloodstained carpet and shoved it into a rubbish chute and burned the bins below.
Duncan’s phone was smashed in a bid to hide the evidence.
But their scheme was rumbled when forensics experts recovered the photo.
The three were locked up during a hearing at the High Court in Glasgow a year later.
Duncan was jailed for 28 months for her part in trying to defeat justice.
Her sister was caged for seven years after she admitted culpable homicide.
Price, then 20, was locked up for 15 years after he confessed to the murder.
Ann Burgess, Scott’s mum, blasted the sentences
She said: “A life sentence should mean life, not just 15 years. “Price should never get out.” Sheriff David Pender called for background reports for the latest offence.
He adjourned the case and remanded the lout in custody.
Duncan, of Bank Street, Paisley, will appear in the dock again later this month.
A life sentence should mean life, not just 15 years. Price should never get out Ann Burgess