Murder accused showed pal how he shot Barclay

A MAN accused of murder wanted to see a shooting victim in hospital after earlier claiming he shot him, a court heard.

The trial of Paul Igoe or Hunter, 37, and his sister Caroline Igoe, 32, who have denied murdering Martyn Barclay, was hearing evidence yesterday.

The pair deny murdering Mr Barclay by discharging a handgun at him and shooting him in the head at Hazelwood Grove, in the Inch on 17 January last year. He later died in hospital.

Giving evidence via a closed circuit television a schoolgirl said that she arrived at her then family home in the city's Gracemount Drive on 18 January last year to find Paul Igoe there.

The teenage girl said: "I heard him say he had shot Martyn Barclay." She added that she did not know who Mr Barclay was or if someone had been shot.

She said Igoe said it "more than once" and that he made a hand gesture "like a gun".

"He put his hand like in a gun to my mum's head and said 'that's like how far I done it'," she told the High Court in Edinburgh.

Advocate depute Alex Prentice QC asked her if anything was said about who Mr Barclay was and she replied: "He just said it was Caroline's boyfriend."

She said they later got a taxi from her home and that in the vehicle Paul Igoe was speaking and had said he wanted to see Mr Barclay.

She said Igoe had on a "Round Two" top.

She said he asked her mother for another top and took it off. The teenager said she was asked in March to go to get the top and took it to Caroline's.

Her mother said she was a friend of Paul Igoe's and they were "drinking buddies" and that he had arrived at her home on 18 January with his brother Joseph.

She said Paul Igoe had mentioned Martyn Barclay, although she had never heard of him before.

"He says he shot him. It was about that close. He was sitting next to me," she said.

She added: "At the time I wasn't sure whether to believe him or not."

She said Igoe could come out "with some weird things" when he had a drink in him. She said he looked shocked about it.

She said that Igoe took off the top he was wearing and asked for a change. She put the top in the washing basket.

She said her daughter was later sent to get it back. She said: "He just said he had to get rid of the evidence."

The Igoes also deny firearms charges, involving possession of a gun and attempting to defeat the ends of justice.

A third man, Kenneth Carruthers, 37, also denies firearms charges and attempting to defeat the ends of justice.

The trial before Lord Bracadale at the High Court in Edinburgh continues.