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Tell all I’m sorry

Prisoner scrawls apology to slain girlfriend on cell wall before he kills himself

- By DAVID MEIKLE reporters@dailyrecor­d.co.uk

A MAN who was set to go on trial for allegedly murdering his girlfriend scribbled an apology to her family on his cell wall before he took his own life.

Hugh Baird, 40, was found dead at HMP Barlinnie, Glasgow, a week before he was due in court accused of murdering Jennifer Morgan, 33.

Prosecutor­s claimed he stabbed Jennifer 27 times at her home in Kirkintill­och, near Glasgow, in April 2018.

She was later found in the garden of her home in a pool of blood by her 11-year-old daughter.

Neighbours spotted the youngster crying following the grim discovery before the alarm was raised.

Baird committed suicide in prison in October 2018 by using laundry cable ties to hang himself.

It has now been revealed he left an apology to Jennifer’s family on his cell wall. He wrote: “I will take the voices away myself, too late for two people who loved each other, tell all I’m sorry in my family and Jen’s xxx”.

A fatal accident inquiry at Glasgow Sheriff Court last year heard Baird had self-harmed on his 40th birthday in August 2018, the day before he was due in court.

He was found with a puncture wound in his neck but Dr Gordon Skilling, a consultant forensic psychiatri­st, said that due to the serious injury Baird caused himself it should have been noted as an attempted suicide.

Sheriff Barry Divers has now ruled Baird’s death was unavoidabl­e and no reasonable precaution­s could have been made to prevent it happening.

Too late for two people who loved each other BAIRD’S APOLOGY SCRIBBLED ON CELL WALL

 ??  ?? SUICIDE Baird took his own life before trial for allegedly killing Jennifer
SUICIDE Baird took his own life before trial for allegedly killing Jennifer

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