Man foundPage stabbed to death in the snow outside tower block

A MURDER investigation has been launched after a 21-year-old man was found stabbed to death outside a block of flats. Jamie Johnstone was discovered fatally wounded in the snow in Glasgow’s Sandyhills area of the city at around 6pm on Saturday. He was taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary, where he later died.

A post-mortem examination has not yet been carried out, but detectives yesterday confirmed the death is being treated as murder.

Police examining CCTV footage and carrying out door-to-door inquiries believe several people were in the area at the time of the attack and are appealing for them to come forward.

One man who lives in the tower block said: ‘I heard someone shout, but that’s normal so I didn’t think anything about it.

‘Then the police came and we knew something must have been wrong.’

Friends and family gathered near where Mr Johnstone was found after the brutal attack, leaving tributes and flowers in the snow beside a police cordon. Among the mourners was

‘Someone was heard shouting’

his devastated cousin, Nicola Davidson, and her partner. She said: ‘He was meeting a girl who lives in the flats. Then he met a couple of boys.’

Her husband, Michael Davidson, who described Mr Johnstone as a ‘lovable rogue’, said: ‘We don’t know what happened. We just know that he’s been stabbed to death.’

The couple left a bouquet of flowers with a card that read: ‘RIP Jamie, love you always’.

Online tributes have also been left for Mr Johnstone, a former pupil of St Andrew’s secondary school.

Jodie Lynn wrote on Facebook: ‘Still can’t get my head around this. That’s you with your mum and gran now. RIP big brother until we meet again.’

Detective Inspector Mark Bell of the Major Investigation Team said: ‘We are in the process of piecing together what has happened to this young man.

‘Given his injuries we know he has been attacked but at this stage, we don’t know why.

‘I am appealing to people who live in the area, particularly the high-rise flats, to contact us with any information they may have.’