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Woohoo! Awesome. [Music] [Music] When Sean found out he was going to be a father, he was just over the moon.
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Sean was at a point in his life where he was doing really well. He had a a good job.
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We were very proud of who he was becoming. And it was really nice to see >> Sean worked really hard. All the money
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they got went to me and Oscar. Sean wasn't supposed to be working that Sunday. Was supposed to work the
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Saturday, but he ended up asking for the Saturday off. On Sunday, October the 10th, 2021, I was
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just watching TV and I got a phone call. There was a commotion in the street, a very large scale disturbance, screaming.
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People looked out their windows and there was a man on the ground. >> Sean's girlfriend Chloe said, "She's
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seen police." There was police all about people running out houses. I was like,
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"Right, I'm coming over." >> The police came to the door and then
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they went, "I'm sorry to tell you, but Sean's died. I fell to the floor crying, screaming,
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felt sick, just total heart shattered. What happened that night would chill the community to the core. A murder in a
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normally quiet town with the suspect nowhere to be found. >> John was just walking home minding his
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business and he lost his life. That's harrowing. It's terrible. The police were struggling to find the
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killer of Shan. This is a significant challenge for police. Where do we start? Knowing that the person who killed Shawn
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was on the run was quite scary. This killer was an outof control, chaotic, frantic man who had consumed a huge
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amount of alcohol, was incredibly angry and looking to harm somebody. To bury a child is just heart-wrenching.
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I feel empty. I don't live the way I used to. I'm just existing now. Would
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never ever wish on anybody. [Music] This picture is Sean and his sister Simone. They were at his cousin's wedding. It
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was a such a great day. The videographers were following Shawn about cuz he danced a lot and we've got a we
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group of them in there dancing. So that's him with his sister Samantha. I met Sean's dad in 1993.
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We had Sean's sister Simone and second sister Samantha and then Sean was born
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in 1998. With having the two girls, we were rooting for a boy and if it was a boy,
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he was going to be named Shawn straight away. So even before we found out, cousins would touch my stomach and say,
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"Baby Shawn all the time." and they just rub at baby Sean. >> I loved being the oldest, so having a
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little brother was great. Sean was definitely the wild one growing up. Me and Sam were a lot calmer. We
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like to like follow the rules, things like that. When Sean was a toddler, he gave his a false sense of security from
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being a quiet baby to a toddler that just as soon as he found his feet, he was running. That was him.
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One time, I think he jumped out the window and he ran into the neighbor's house and I remember knocking on the
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door to to get him back in. >> Sean always knew he was like the center of attention and stood out.
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He was definitely the funny one and always getting up to something. [Music] When Sean was born, it was in Paisley
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and we stayed in Paisley for a long time. Paisley was really bad for gangs and there was loads of crime going on. So I
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felt I had to like kind of move from that area just for my children and for Sha. It was because he was easily led
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with older boys. We moved to Stevenson when Shawn was about seven. I would have been about 11,
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just starting high school. We all made friends quite quickly at school. Sean ended up being parts of football teams
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there. where he was in the school plays. So yeah, he did settle in really nicely.
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Sean loved his new life. He loved that he had the beach next to him. He had made friends and there was a skating
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disco at night. He could go ice skating. He loved the ice skating and the swimming.
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I went to the same high school as Sean. He was a bit of a class clown. You always seen him running the corridors,
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so you just knew he had loads of personality. We started talking in March, but we
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started get out on April 1, April Fool's Day. They invited me over to his dad's house
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and I just stayed the night and then that was it. I stayed for 2 weeks. after that
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and then we went over to Sean's mom's house and lived there. >> They were meant to stay for one night
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and they never left. >> They were both big personalities like they used to wind each other up.
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>> And I could see that's where Sean got his personality from. >> They were good for each other. They were
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funny together. Like she was a quiet one. He was a loud one. So it was like ying and yang. He did change. He was in
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the house more. Spent loads of time with her. Went to shops for her. Done everything that she needed. He would he
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would do it. He was he was really good. [Music] Me and Sean moved in together in 2019.
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We loved it. We were so excited. It meant so much to us both cuz we knew that we wanted a family. We wanted to
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get engaged. >> Chloe had a feeling that she was pregnant. So I bought the pregnancy test
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kit and I took it to Chloe and I gave it to her and it came positive. So I think
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I was one of the first ones to find out. [Music] During Chloe's pregnancy, Sean was very
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excited. He had numerous posts up about it. Can't wait till my little ones here
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and just saying how much he loved them already. I gave birth to Oscar on the 5th of July
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2020. When Sean first met Oscar, he was crying with joy. I just remember the smile on his face. He was like, I can't
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believe this. This is actually happening. He was nervous that she was burping. Everybody was watching you. Sean was a
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really good dad. Always cuddling. I loved playing with him. Oscar was his baby boy and and he spoke about him all
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the time. [Music] >> It's just really sad that he didn't get to see Oscar's personality cuz he was
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still so young at the time. >> The last time I actually spoke to Shawn was the night before. I had had Oscar on
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the Friday night. I took him home and Sean, he didn't really say this a lot,
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but he was like, "Thanks. Thanks, Mom. Thanks for doing everything." And I had
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stood there at the car like at the door and I thought, "Should I go in and give
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him a cuddle for that or not?" And I was like, "I'll see him tomorrow." And I
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just drove away and went home. And that will always haunt me. I wish I'd went
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back in and just gave him that hug. [Music] It was kind of like bittersweet moment
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memory. [Music] Sean worked with my dad, so it was like bathroom work, joinery, that kind of
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thing. >> It was just a normal day. It was quite a cloudy kind of rainy day.
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Sean would usually get home. Sometimes it'd be 6:00, sometimes it'd be 7:00,
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sometimes it'd be 8. I put Oscar to bed like just a normal night. [Music] I started clicking on that something was
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wrong because we were all like in this group chat and then a message said who were they
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two guys shouting at you. I tried to phone Sean couldn't get through to him so I phoned his friend John and I said
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who was it you heard? and they went, "I don't know." There was two guys shouting
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and then the phone went down. And then that's when the panic started kicking in cuz he was just around the
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corner like he should be home by now. After that phone call, I was like, "I
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better phone Debbie because I feel like something's wrong." She was panicking.
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You could hear the panic in her voice. And so I was like, "Can you see anything
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out there? Can you look out the window?" So she looked out the window and she
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said she seen police. There was blue lights. There was police all about people running out houses.
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I was like, "Right, I'm coming over." I just had a a newborn. So, I remember
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lying in bed all cuddled up and then I just remember sitting up and my watch had showed me a message saying, "Answer
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your phone. I need to talk to you." So, when my mom called me, she told me that she thinks something has happened
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to Sean. She said that he was on the phone to one of his friends like on FaceTime and they
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heard somebody shouting at him and then his phone switched off. Nobody could contact him. And there was something in
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me in that moment that I knew, don't know if it's a sibling bond, but there
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was something in my body that told me that he was gone. When I seen them blue lights, I felt
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sick. There was loads of things going through my head. I couldn't leave the house because Oscar
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was in his bed sleeping. It was just awful. I felt really trapped. As soon as we got to the car park at the
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scene, we got out straight away. I just I approached my mom. There was tape at the end of the street, police tape. My
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mom was just anxious, like just waiting. The detective came over and they asked to speak to my mom and my stepdad. And
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we just seen my mom's reaction and she kind of just bursts into tears. You could just see it in her face and
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straight away we knew exactly what I was telling them. I was waiting roughly from about 9:00 to
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12:00. My dad came in and he said to me, "Chloe, this is something serious.
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There's tape everywhere and it looks as if they're starting to put like a tent
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or something up." And that's when my heart dropped. I was like, "It can't
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be." And I just seen the police car pulling up outside. And I went and answered the door and they went, "Are
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you Chloe?" And they went, "I'm sorry to tell you, but Sean circum injuries."
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I was in total disbelief. After that, I was screaming in the street and I just remember all the neighbors
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being at their window staring and all I could scream like all I was screaming about was you've took some away from his
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boy. You've took his dad away. I couldn't look at Oscar because of the guilt. I felt so guilty because he was
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smiling at me and his dad's been taken away from him. After that, I left the house and I went
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to stay with Debbie and I never went back. I remember just disbelief. Can it be true? Just can it be him? I
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think they've got the wrong person. And the first person I found was my mom.
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And she just screamed and she was like, "No, no, no." I was like, "Mom, it's
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true. He's he's he's been killed." Like, um, somebody's killed my boy.
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Those words are always going to haunt me for the fact that my mom's had to phone
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her mom and tell her something so awful has happened. [Music] Dalai is a town in Airshshire. It's a
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small town. It's a small community. Everyone knows everyone in Dai. It is unusual. In fact, in my memory, I don't
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remember any other murders. It's a place you don't expect something like this to happen.
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There's not a huge fear of crime. >> In 2021, I was a senior reporter with
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the Besa Daily Express newspaper. That role required me to keep in contact with police and media sources, cover
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crime scenes, and be a voice for the local community. On Monday, I got up for work and headed
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out to take my dog for a walk. A colleague had contacted me asking if I knew what was going on in Dai because
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there was a large police presence in St. Margaret's Avenue. We were just headed in the direction
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where I was met with multiple dozens of police cars, plane close officers, C officers, police tape blocking both ends
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of the street on either direction. I asked if there was any information that they could provide at that time and
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the police officer told me that there was active inquiries and all would be revealed throughout the police outlets
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at the appropriate time. The police were confused. They're trying to find out what had happened and
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rightly so. They can't reveal information to try and find out why it had happened. And they also need to
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trace the killer. [Music] It was a big thing to cover a murder, particularly one from a town where I
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grew up in. It was very hard-hitting, emotional, and you felt the ripple effect throughout the community.
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Social media had some rumors circulating and they were stating that a young man named Shawn had been murdered.
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Police weren't forthcoming with any names at the time. And that I think gave
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speculation as to could there be another murder? Why was Shawn murdered? Why Shawn? The policeman came in and asked
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us who would want to do that to him? Things like that. I thought there's nobody. There's no I can think cuz he
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was so wellliked. I was just trying to like go through my head who would just kill him. Was there a fight? Did this
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person try and rob him? I just could not believe it. The detective had told my mom that it was fatal because of a
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stabbing. And I was trying to think who had done it. I didn't really have an
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idea cuz not like he was in trouble with anyone. >> It made me feel so scared. We could
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potentially be walking by him in the street if we go outside. I was just so anxious.
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On the Tuesday night, we went to visit Sean in the hospital in Glasgow. I was definitely scared of what I was
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going to walk in and see, but I don't think I would have forgiven myself if I
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didn't get that chance to say bye to him. We had to go in in small groups. So, my
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mom, my stepdad, and Chloe went in together first. And just seeing him there, it was just
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it was just perfect just lying there. And I just promised them there that I'll
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always look after Oscar. I will always be there for Chloe as well. I will always be
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there for them. >> The first thing I did was I gave him a cuddle. And I just wanted to stay there and
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smelling his hair. I loved the smell of his hair. I never wanted to leave. [Music]
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I went in with my dad and my sister and when I touched his hand, he was freezing. So the whole time I spent like
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trying to rub his hand, trying to kind of warm it up a bit. The way he was lying, it kind of looked
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like a we smile on his face. I just was waiting for him to sit up and say boo, you know, cuz he always played jokes and
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that's all I wanted him to do so that everything could be fine. Why not me? Why my son?
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Why take him away? He was just living his life. He was getting his driving lessons. He
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was working. He was achieving things, goals. I could go. I've had my family, you
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know, just take me. I would take his place in a heartbeat. I would take his place.
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[Music] On the 12th of October, police released a statement stating that a 30-year-old
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man had been arrested in connection with Shan Mai's murder. It was big news. It
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was a big story for journalists, but it was a bigger story for the community of Dai cuz someone had been arrested.
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When Sean was killed, the police found a person made a 999 call. And in that call, this person said his friend had
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killed someone, murdered someone. >> During the 999 call, the caller was trying to explain the circumstances of
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the event. But the call handler understandably wasn't interested in that at that point because saving Sha's life
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took precedence in that conversation. It was only when the police went to take a statement from that person that they
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established that his friend was Gavin McVey. He implicated Gavin McVey is being the
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killer. When they look at Gavin McVey, it's someone that is not a pleasant individual.
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>> Gavin McVey. I'd never heard even Sean mentioning that name. >> The first thing I did was try and look
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him up to see if I recognized the name. But I didn't. Then I was asking people,
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I was like, "Do you know who this is?" And it was like, "No, no."
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The following day, Gav McVy appeared in Commander Sheriff Court and was reminded
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in custody for the murder of Sean Mai. I felt a relief that he was off the streets. It was safer for other folk.
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Somebody's going to get held responsible for taking Sean. You know, maybe we'd
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get answers of why. [Music] The police kept us up to date. Told us that Gavin McVey was caught in a
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different town. They' found a weapon and they've got DNA on the weapon. I had never heard of Gavin McVey and I
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don't think many people actually did apart from maybe people who sort of ran
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in those circles with Gavin, but he was not a well-known name at the time, especially to myself who lived 5 minutes
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away. >> Gavin had previous convictions. These were attempting to defeat the ends of
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justice, which means perverting the course of justice, assaulting a child, and carrying a weapon.
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>> He drank a lot of alcohol. He consumed drugs. >> This is someone that had a past, a
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violent past. It was someone that was not a pillar in society. [Music] On the 9th of October,
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a man was stabbed three times in the back. And this man happened to be Gavin McVeyy's friend's nephew. It's the
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friend that made the 999 call. >> Because of the incident, Gavin McVey and
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this friend were drinking tonic wine in excess. They approached a friend's house and the
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couple within. At first, I think were perfectly fine with Gavin and his male friend being there. Gavin and the male
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property owner went to a local convenience store to buy more tonic wine. And whilst at the shop, an
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incident took place there. Gavin was verbally vile to the shopkeeper. Racial comments were made and he threatened to
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kill the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper was terrified, but he handled himself great and just quickly asked Gavin to leave
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and told him he was banned from the shop for the rest of his life. Gavin McVey was clearly emotionally
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disregulated by the incident and he had gone into this heightened state of anger
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which when fueled by alcohol he was out of control. So much so that even when he'd gone to a couple's house who he was
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friends with, he was incredibly aggressive, incredibly angry, stabbing a knife into the carpet, saying that he
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wanted to kill somebody. He frightened them so much so that when he left the house, they actually called the police
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themselves to report his behavior. >> Gavin McB was aggressive. He was in possession of a knife. He was insistent
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he was going to kill someone. Gavin's friend was full of alcohol and wasn't telling him, "Gavin, put that
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knife away or don't be so silly." And when they left the property and were
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down the street, he didn't take Gavin away from Shawn. Although we might say Shawn was in the
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wrong place at the wrong time, he wasn't. He was in the right place at the right time. He was walking home from
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work. This was his normal routine. And then Gavin McVey was drunk, angry, and unfortunately he saw Sha and he stabbed
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him in the abdomen. [Music] Once Gavin stabbed him, I think the friend thought, I need to help now.
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Whilst Gavin made off, Gavin's friend stayed on the scene, called the ambulance, and offered Sean CPR until
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police arrived and at least tried to save the life that Gavin had taken. He didn't have to, but he stayed there and
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tried. >> That is horrendous. Absolutely horrendous. An innocent individual's
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life taken away for no reason at all. A totally unprovoked attack by someone determined to kill another person. It
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was almost instant death for this poor individual. We went to where Sean was murdered and
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we lay lots of flowers. We went quite late so that we didn't have to see anybody and a car pulled up and a young
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woman got out the car and asked if we were with the family. She was crying telling us that she was with Sean and
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her and a few other people in the community had done everything that they could to try and help him.
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She was lovely. She answered any questions we had. But yeah, she said that he wasn't alone and there was lots
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of them there, but she was just so sorry that she couldn't save him. It is really
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nice knowing that nobody just left them in the street on his own. [Music] The police spoke to everybody at the
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scene. They took statements. Clothing was taken for DNA evidence. They'd gone
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knocking on doors to see if anybody had seen or heard anything to really try and
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build up a picture of what had happened and what had led to these tragic events.
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>> Technically is a manhunt. So they're looking for him and they're using
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everything CCTV. Okay, there was no CCTV where the actual incident happened, but they piece it
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together looking at public space CCTV. They will be looking at all his background, all his associates, visiting
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associates, attending at houses where he was known to frequent. They have to trace this person because it's a
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dangerous individual that has killed one person. Would he kill again? [Music] After Gavin brutally murdered Shawn Mai,
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he quickly fled the scene and attempted to remain undercover throughout the night at his mother's property.
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The following morning, he got on the bus to Irvin Town Center. The police managed to trace Gavin McVey
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through the CCTV on the bus routes that he took when leaving Delry in the morning of the 12th of October.
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His sister-in-law had seen him in Irvin and then he had gone to another relative's house and he was in an
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erratic state. He was he he seemed okay earlier on but he changed completely when he went to his relatives house.
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This was someone that was jittery. He knew what he'd done and he probably by
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that time realized that the police would be looking for him. >> He was agitated. He kept repeating over
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and over that something bad had happened. His recollection of the event is that he was standing next to a man
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and one minute he was stood next to him and the next minute the man was on the floor and that man was Sean Mai.
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>> Gavin was traced eventually to his brother's house in air. That's it. is
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arrested. >> Meanwhile, there was a police officer searching Gavin's mother's property and
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garden in the garden area. Police discovered a tent with a large bloodstained knife
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concealed behind a rucks sack. >> When that knife is forensically examined, that knife could be linked to
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Gavin McVey because his DNA was on it. You had Sean's blood on the blade. So
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what you have is you've got the murder weapon. They also found fingerprints in
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his mom's house. So all this is piecing him, piecing it together and linking him
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to the house. And that is unbelievable forensic evidence. But it doesn't stop there.
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You've got the person that was a killer that he knew he's going to plead not
00:30:09
guilty to at court. And you need to prove beyond reasonable doubt for the victim's family, Sean's family, because
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the victim's got no voice. You owe it to the family. [Music] It was the worst day of my life when we
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had to bury him. But I just wanted everything to be so beautiful for my baby brother. That's
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what I always say. I remember when the cows had came, just seeing like his coffin and seeing the flowers and stuff
00:31:00
that was there. It was just surreal. We had bag pipes and they piped us out of the street and then just being in that
00:31:09
car like knowing that that was his last ever journey. It was heartbreaking. It felt like a dream.
00:31:18
I remember people speaking to me and it was just going straight past me. I couldn't take anything in.
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I had my dad sitting beside me holding on to my hand and I had his sister at the other side. And when they brought
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the coffin down, I couldn't even look at it. I was devastated. It's a day that I never wish upon
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anybody. And especially being so young, nothing can prepare you for when it's
00:31:49
your sibling who's only had 23 years of his life. And 23 years would never have
00:31:57
been enough. [Music] The trial of Gavin McVey took place at Paisley High Court on the 12th of June
00:32:12
2023 and lasted 2 weeks. The trial itself was very busy. Sean's family and friends all attended. There
00:32:23
must have been around 20 people there supporting Shawn and Shawn's family each
00:32:28
day of the trial. I've never seen the courtroom so packed. Never. From any criminal case, I've never seen so many
00:32:35
people all supporting a victim. It was terrifying because I didn't really know what I was walking into. I
00:32:42
knew we were going to see him, but I was so nervous of everything that was going
00:32:45
to happen. When Gav McVy first appeared, he was brought up with handcuffs on. He was vile from the get-go. He would
00:32:55
shake his head when the prosecutor was speaking. He would make remarks. He would tut. He was a vile, vile man. When
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I first saw Gavin in court, I was just like, there's that monster. I was angry.
00:33:11
I was frustrated. I was nervous. Quite scared in a way that he was in the same room as us.
00:33:19
My first feelings were like, "It's disgusting." I looked at the back of his
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head and was like, "Why? Why did you do it?" I wish I could have say to him,
00:33:27
"Why? Just tell me why did you do that to my son?" Gavin McVey denied the
00:33:33
murder from day one. And despite police having all this evidence, he tried to blame someone else for his terrible,
00:33:42
terrible acts of violence on that night. The police had amassed a lot of evidence, significant evidence. They had
00:33:51
CCTV evidence. They had the knife recovered. They had forensic evidence to link that to Shawn and to link it to
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Gavin. They had statements. They had the friend that had implicated him. So, you
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had all this together. And that should be sufficient to prove beyond reasonable doubt.
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[Music] When the court was shown the knife, people gasped. I can't remember how long the blade was,
00:34:26
but it was a large knife that, you know, it would do damage if it was to be used
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in the way it was. It was clear that that had been the solely responsible weapon for murdering
00:34:39
Shawn. >> Obviously, that was very emotional just seeing what had hurt my brother.
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>> It was frightening to see that that was the weapon that had took Sean's life.
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>> We found out that Shawn had been stabbed through E's liver and T's heart.
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We wouldn't have stood a chance. Shawn died instantly and unfortunately due to the stab wound where it
00:35:09
perforated the body. Even if this had happened in a hospital, there wouldn't
00:35:13
have been anything that they would have been able to do to save his life. [Music]
00:35:28
Sean's family and friends conducted themselves so well, but naturally emotions overtook them at times. You
00:35:34
know, they would be crying, visibly upset, and quite rightly so, they're hearing the facts of how their loved one
00:35:39
was murdered. I just wanted to give them a cuddle. They deserve to be held and squeezed
00:35:45
tightly and loved. We had heard the evidence of a text message sent to someone where it had
00:35:54
just said, "I've just killed someone." I don't think there was much more to the
00:36:00
text message, but just kind of blunt and he's used the word killed. Just before
00:36:06
11:00 p.m. on the evening of the murder, Gavin McVey messaged his friend saying,
00:36:11
"I've just killed some." And then he used a derogatory word to describe Sha.
00:36:16
The fact that he's put it in a text message shows complete lack of thought, lack of respect, lack of regard at all.
00:36:24
And that's an admission of a very serious crime via text message. For him, it's just meaningless.
00:36:32
I sat to Gavin's right hand side, and I think he must have looked at me a couple
00:36:38
of times throughout the trial, sort of with a look of evil. He sniggered a couple of times and would roll his eyes,
00:36:47
but fortunately the family weren't able to see his face because I don't think
00:36:51
that they would have appreciated the manner in which he was conducting himself, particularly his facial
00:36:56
expressions. Govern McVey didn't give any reason. There was no reason why he could have
00:37:05
killed him. So he didn't even speak in court. Gavin lodged a special defense of
00:37:12
incrimination. He said in court that his friend that had been with him was responsible. Feel the hatred because his
00:37:19
nephew had been starved the day before. But there was so much overwhelming evidence against Gavin Mc. There was no
00:37:27
evidence against this other individual, but he still stuck by that. He was determined to use any means whatever to
00:37:35
get off with this. It was very clear to the court that this friend wasn't responsible for the
00:37:41
murder. When the jury returned the guilty verdict, he was still denying the murder
00:37:48
of Shaw Makai. When the jury came back and said guilty, it was brilliant. And on the 23rd of June 2023, Gavin Wi
00:38:10
was convicted of the murder of Shan and he was sentenced to 21 years imprisonment for that murder and
00:38:18
attempting to defeat the ends of justice and other associated crimes. >> He was given 21 years, but I've lost my
00:38:25
partner. Oscar's lost his dad. It just wasn't enough. When the sentencing was passed, Sean's
00:38:33
family and friends in the public gallery thanked the jury for finding Gavin McVey
00:38:38
guilty on all three charges. They applauded the jury and said, "Thank you." Gavin McVey, however, booed, swore
00:38:48
violently, and made a vile hand gesture towards the public gallery. Gavin showed
00:38:53
us all the middle finger as he went back downstairs after being found guilty. It
00:38:59
made us feel horrible, but it showed his character. >> There's no accountability, complete lack
00:39:07
of remorse for his behavior, and also a lack of acknowledgement of the severity of his actions. You know, it it seems
00:39:14
like it's all just a game to him. Coming face to face with Sha's killer would
00:39:19
have been very difficult for the family, especially to confront someone that has
00:39:24
so mindlessly taken something so precious from your life without showing any remorse for their actions.
00:39:38
[Music] I'm generally not affected. After this case, it hit home. I was glad that the jury
00:39:51
had returned the guilty verdict on all three charges for Sean's family. I think
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I actually got a bit emotional within the court writing my notes, but I thought, well done. It was a great
00:40:02
result. Happy birthday to you. >> Happy birthday. [Applause] Happy birthday to you.
00:40:24
[Music] [Applause] Let's go. [Music] >> This was Oscar's first birthday party.
00:40:45
It's quite hard to look at obviously because that was Oscar's only birthday
00:40:50
that Sean got to be part of. So yeah, it's a very very special memory in that
00:40:55
one. This video is just when you hear Oscar laughing in it and him kissing Oscar,
00:41:04
it's just that shows you how close they were, how much he loved his son and how
00:41:09
much his son was with him. They were just great together. Shai was a father, a son,
00:41:18
and a a friend of the community in Dorai. Don't know why I'm getting emotional. Um, he was a lovely boy. I
00:41:25
didn't know him, but I think he had a heart of gold. He didn't deserve to die.
00:41:30
[Music] I was always so proud of him. He should be here. He should be with Chloe and
00:41:50
Oscar. I miss him just so much. I think I just miss his laugh, hearing his voice. Um
00:42:01
just because he was he made everyone laugh all the time. >> He lit up every room that he went into.
00:42:09
He was loud. My mom had him on our phone as Fogghorn Sean. He could make you laugh. See, when you're upset or you're
00:42:18
down or any mood that you're in and you need lifted, he could do that. It breaks
00:42:24
my heart every day to see Oscar without his dad. You'll never get to know him
00:42:29
the way that I did. >> So sorry, daddy. >> Oscar asks a lot of questions about his
00:42:36
dad now. He's getting to that age. He knows who he is. It does say that he misses him and we try our best to tell
00:42:45
him stories and show him pictures and videos. Oscar is his dad's double, full of
00:42:53
energy. So, I think they would have got on really well and it would have been nice to see that relationship.
00:42:59
I've never moved on from it. Even now, 4 years later, I still think that there's nobody as good as him.
00:43:10
After Sean died, I found out he was going to ask me to marry him. He'd spoke
00:43:15
about it with his closest friends. I would have said yes, definitely. [Music] [Music]