Glasgow street death of 19-year-old sparks murder hunt

Detectives said Stewart Dayer died after he was injured in an "altercation" in north-west Glasgow on Thursday evening.

Dayer was the second youth killed in Greater Glasgow that evening. Police are also investigating the murder of a 16-year-old, Jack Frew, who was stabbed in East Kilbride in an unrelated incident.

Police said Dayer and another man, 22, were seriously injured in an incident in the Cadder area of Glasgow at around 9pm. Dayer was taken to Glasgow's Western Infirmary but died some hours later.

Strathclyde Police said the incident took place close to Vaila Street and are eager to speak to anyone who was in a wooded area behind the street or on the nearby Forth and Clyde Canal towpath.

A spokesman said: "Officers now know that some of those involved in the altercation made their way through the wooded area to the end of Lochburn Road, near the canal, and we are asking for anyone who may have been in that area to contact them."

Chief Inspector Grahame Clarke from Glasgow's Maryhill Police Office said the area was commonly used as a shortcut between Vaila Street and Balmore Road and the Maryhill Road and Lochburn Road.

He said: "We have increased police patrols in the area to reassure the local community and we are also conducting door-to-door inquiries in and around Vaila Street.

"A mobile police office is also parked in Vaila Street and anyone with information can call into the office."

Clarke praised the "excellent response from the local community". He added: "However, we are still at the very early stages of the inquiry and I would urge anyone who was in the area or who may have information to contact us as soon as possible."

Police in East Kilbride said that 16-year-old Frew was killed after a violent attack on a cyclepath in the town's Mossneuk area.

Another schoolboy is understood to have been hurt.