Fresh appeal over Renfrew murder

Police investigating the murder of a man in a brutal street attack have made a fresh appeal for witnesses who may have seen him in pubs hours before his death.

Paul Mathieson was found with serious head and facial injuries in Wilson Street, Renfrew, just after 1am on Sunday 14 January.

Police believe the 37-yearold had been there for some time following the apparently unprovoked assault, before he was found by a passer-by.

He was taken by ambulance to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow but died in the early hours of Saturday 20 January.

Mr Mathieson had been in the Western Bar and the Kind Man’s pub in Renfrew before the attack and officers are keen to hear from other people who were there.

Detective Chief Inspector Martin Fergus said yesterday: “I know some people may think they don’t know anything which could help us or they think they didn’t witness anything but we need to know who Paul saw and spoke to that evening so your information could contribute to that.

“Let us be the judge of how relevant the information is, we are gathering information from a number of sources and one small detail could prove pivotal in piecing together the events of that evening and therefore leading us to trace the person responsible for this young man’s death.”