Victim’s father says murder accused are ‘guilty as each other’
THE father of a woman who was allegedly murdered at a witch memorial said yesterday his own son and another woman were ‘as guilty as each other’.
Jordan Johnstone, 25, is accused of stabbing his 22-year-old sister annalise to death in Perthshire.
His girlfriend angela newlands, 19, is facing the same charge at the High Court in livingston. They deny repeatedly stabbing Miss Johnstone in the neck at Maggie Wall’s Memorial – a monument to a witch near dunning – on May 10 last year.
yesterday, gordon Johnstone, 44, told the court: ‘i just want to see justice. all i know is that my daughter is buried and the two of them is as guilty as each other.’
Mr Johnstone, from Fauldhouse, West lothian, admitted he had fallen out with his daughter over her lifestyle before she was killed. He said: ‘We left on an argument. That’s haunted me to this day.’
He told the jury he had gone to see his son in edinburgh’s Saughton Prison a few weeks after Miss Johnstone’s body was found by a roadside.
He admitted he had threatened to ‘smash his face on top of the table’ if Johnstone did not reveal what he had done to his sister. He said his son blamed his co-accused. Mr Johnstone said his son told him he had been at the memorial with his sister and his co-accused but had walked back to their home in nearby auchterarder as he was feeling cold.
He added: ‘He said angela came in within five or ten minutes and went to the sink. He went over and she was washing blood off her hands.
‘He sprinted back to the monument and he seen annalise on the ground. He seen my daughter bleeding profusely out of her neck. He said he ripped off his T-shirt and tried to staunch the gash in her neck.
‘He said angela came driving down minutes later. He was screaming to get the police, an ambulance. She shouted, “i’m not getting any ambulance”.’
Judge lady Scott warned jurors that the allegations made by Johnstone about newlands did not constitute evidence. The jury has been told Miss Johnstone, of ardrossan, ayrshire, died within a few minutes of suffering a deep puncture wound to her neck.
Both accused also deny attempting to defeat the ends of justice. The case continues.