Background: A Scots town that knows more than most about the tragedy of violence on its streets

In December last year, a teenager died after being involved in an altercation with door staff at a nightclub.

Steven Smith, 18, was refused entry to Fury Murry’s in Paisley in the early hours of Boxing Day.

Flowers and football shirts were left outside the club and tributes were posted on Facebook. A lengthy police investigation failed to discover how he died.

Mr Smith’s brother Darren, was killed four years earlier.

The 20-year-old died after being stabbed in the chest during an attack in Gallowhill, Paisley, in December 2006.

In October 2009, an argument over damage to a car left one man dead.

Father-of-six James Alford left his home late at night in Lochinver Crescent, Paisley, to remonstrate with vandals after his Vauxhall Astra had been damaged.

A fight broke out and he was knocked to the floor before being kicked repeatedly about the head.

His sister, Theresa Maitland, later said: “He has paid with his life for a wing mirror.”

Rona MacKenzie was jailed for 15 years for the “callous and horrific” murder of Margaret Borris, in Paisley, during the summer of 2008.

The pair, who had both had relationships with the same man, James Wandrum, fell out after his dog was injured when Mrs Borris let it off the lead and it was hit by a car.

MacKenzie tackled Mrs Borris about the accident on 14 June, and then saw her by chance on 7 July in King Street, Paisley.

Mrs Borris was with her son, Paul, 20, a student, and they had been on her way to collect her mother’s pension.

MacKenzie lost her temper and drove at her.

Mrs Borris was dragged under the car, sustained 73 separate injuries and died.

Witnesses described the driver of the car as “cool as a cucumber” and “unemotional” at the time.

One witness alleged that MacKenzie had reversed over Mrs Borris as she lay on the ground, but that claim was deleted from the indictment by the jury.