Screwdriver murderer imprisoned for life

A murderer who hunted down a former workmate and stabbed him in the head with a screwdriver has been jailed for life.

Scott Agnew, formerly of Kirkton Crescent, Coatbridge, was ordered to serve at least 18 and a half years in prison after fatally wounding Stewart Rexter in the attack over a debt.

He had been freed on bail just two months earlier.

A judge told Agnew, 29, at the High Court in Edinburgh: “This was a sickening and savage attack.”

Lord Clark said the evidence was that the victim had owed Agnew £300 or £400, which according to some witnesses was a drug debt. The judge said: “You went looking for him and having found him you attacked him.” Lord Clark said the brain injury Agnew inflicted on his 38-year-old victim was “unsurvivable” and he succumbed two days later.