I don’t know if Owen had a lot of enemies.. he stood up for himself but that doesn’t give a reason to kill him
MUM TELLS MURDER TRIAL OF ATTACK ON SON
BY GRANT McCABE reporters@dailyrecord.co.uk
A MUM yesterday told a murder trial how she tried to save her dying son after he was attacked outside her pub.
Anne Marie Lynch said Owen Hassan was “covered in blood” in the street beside the Old Stag Inn bar in Glasgow’s Pollokshaws.
The 55-year-old initially chased after a man before realising he was with another individual.
Anne Marie told jurors how her son would “stand up for himself ” but she was not aware if he had a “lot of enemies”.
She was giving evidence at the trial of David Callaghan, 30, and Craig Corrall, 39, at the High Court in Glasgow. The pair deny murdering 30-year-old Owen in November 2018.
The court heard how dadof-three Owen would often work in his mum’s pub, where she was the licensee.
He had gone there on the day of the alleged murder – November 7 last year.
Anne Marie recalled: “He came in and said, ‘I am exhausted. I am just going to go and get a shower’. He got the keys for the house. He said he was very tired and was going home.” She said her son left and she later heard “a bang”.
Anne Marie ran from behind the bar and Owen was against the pub door.
She added: “I thought he was doing something funny then I could hear thumping and realised something was wrong.”
Owen was on the ground. Anne Marie said she grabbed another man there to “try and stop what was happening”.
This male was said to have broken free but Anne Marie initially went after him. She told prosecutor Lynsey MacDonald: “I just thought, ‘Who are you … what have you done?’”
Anne Marie believed the man was armed. She said he shouted on another person nearby, who also appeared to have a weapon.
Anne Marie said she was told at one stage, “F*** off, missus.”
The mum recalled: “I ran back to the pub. He (Owen) was just lying there … covered in blood. I was trying to get a phone to call an ambulance. I was just trying to help him.” Paramedics arrived to treat Owen but he never recovered.
The court heard Anne Marie later identified two individuals she believed were involved.
Callaghan’s QC Brian McConnachie quizzed her on the men she claimed to have seen. He asked did she shout “I know who you are” as she went after them that night?
Anne Marie said she had but insisted she “didn’t have a clue who they were” and only said what she had “to frighten them”.
McConnachie asked the