LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR BRUTAL ECCLEFECHAN MURDER
Written by author on June 4, 2014
At the High Court in Edinburgh today Andrew Brown, (DOB 11/12/1990) from Ecclefechan and Dean Melnyk (30/05/1993) from Lockerbie, were sentenced to life imprisonment with a punishment part of 20 years each for the murder of Kevin Mackay at a property in Peacock Place, Ecclefechan on 22 August 2013.
The court heard that Mr Mackay was at the home of a friend when the two men, believing he had played a part in the death of one of their friends, arrived and after kicking in the front door, armed with knives ran inside.
They confronted their victim in the living room and repeatedly kicked, punched and stabbed him.
Speaking following the sentencing, Jennifer Harrower, Procurator Fiscal for Homicides and Serious Crime in the West of Scotland, said:
“There is no doubt that Andrew Brown and Dean Melnyk went looking for their victim with the sole intention of doing him serious harm. Minutes after finding him John Mackay lay dead, brutally murdered.
“Yet again knives used in anger have left a family devastated and the perpetrators facing life behind bars.”
