Kevin Carroll murder: Victim’s friend ‘never asked about shooting’

A “GOOD friend” of a gangland figure shot dead in a supermarket car park did not try to find out what happened to him, despite arriving at the scene before police and spending hours in a car with the last people to see him alive, a court heard.

Francis Green, 29, said he had known Kevin “Gerbil” Carroll for “about 15 years” and saw or spoke to him every day. He told the High Court in Glasgow yesterday that Mr Carroll was the partner of his sister, Kelly Green.

Mr Carroll was in the back seat of a parked black Audi A3 when two masked gunmen shot him dead outside Asda in Robroyston, Glasgow. Mr Green said he was phoned by Stephen McLaggan, who told him: “Gerbil’s dead.”

Mr McLaggan has told the trial he was in the car park with Mr Carroll when he was shot.

Mr Green said he raced to the scene and went inside the black Audi “to really check to see if he was dead or alive”. But he said he had not asked three other men at the scene, Mr McLaggan, John Bonner and Martin McNee, what had happened to his friend.

Advocate depute Iain McSporran asked him: “This friend of yours had been shot while in the company of Stephen McLaggan and John Bonner. You might perhaps think it would be they who were the best people to ask?”

He replied: “I think they were in shock.”

He was giving evidence at the trial of Ross Monaghan, 30, who denies repeatedly shooting and murdering Mr Carroll, while acting with others, in January, 2010.

The trial continues.