Youth, 17, boasted to police of murdering 13-year-old boy

A THUG with a history of violence has admitted battering a 13-year-old boy to death, and had boasted to police he was glad he had done it.

Jordan McCready attacked Jon Wilson as the youngster made his way home in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, in the early hours of 4 September last year.

McCready – who was high on Valium and Buckfast – later boasted at a police station that he had “jumped up and down on a boy’s head”.

A judge heard yesterday how the 17-year-old also slashed a stranger and robbed a teenager of his mobile phone after the killing.

McCready faces a life sentence after admitting a murder charge at the High Court in Glasgow.

John Scullion, prosecuting, told how Jon had been intending to stay overnight with a friend on 3 September and called his mother to tell her. But he changed his mind and headed back to his home in Kilmarnock at about 2:15am.

CCTV footage showed McCready – who had earlier consumed vodka, Buckfast and Valium pills with friends – close to the schoolboy in the town.

Mr Scullion said there were no eyewitnesses to what happened next. But, at around 2:30am, witnesses heard “coughing and spluttering noises” coming from the scene of the attack.

The prosecutor went on: “The deceased was on his side. He was not breathing properly and his face was covered in blood.”

Jon, a second-year pupil at Kilmarnock Academy, was rushed to hospital suffering from severe head injuries. He was found to have irreversible brain damage, and died on 5 September.

The court heard that McCready, of Dreghorn, Ayrshire, contacted his parents and claimed he had “done something bad” and asked them to “keep a secret”.

When arrested, he shouted to police: “If he gets out of intensive care, I’m going to f****** murder him. I’m only 16. I’ll do two year in Polmont for attempt murder.”

At the police station, McCready claimed he was “glad” he had “done him in” and that he had been owed money.

He added: “We were walking to Asda, my pals seen him. I dragged him down a lane and battered the life out of him.”

He told how he had “jumped up and down on a boy’s head” McCready was found to have struck the boy so hard, he had bruising to his own feet.

Mr Scullion said the schoolboy’s death has had a “devastating impact” on his family.

The court was told McCready carried out two other attacks after the killing, which he also admitted yesterday.

He struck Gordon Paton, 40, with a bread knife after demanding he hand over his phone. McCready then robbed Jonathan McClung, 17, of his phone.

It emerged McCready was convicted of assault in 2010. He has previously been in residential care and not stayed in his family home since 2010.

Sentence was deferred.