Killer cousin: Murder accused lawyer gave me name & address of victim who found handbag
Trial hears of link between pair
A CONVICTED killer told a jury that his murderaccused cousin gave him the name and address of the man she believed broke into her home.
Kirk McIntyre, 51, admitted going to Frederick McGettigan’s home and knocking the door.
He told the High Court in Glasgow he got no answer and left.
McIntyre denied murdering McGettigan and told the jury he has launched an appeal after being convicted of the killing last year.
He was giving evidence at the trial of lawyer Joanne Threshie, who is now accused of murdering McGettigan.
Threshie, whose husband is a police officer, is alleged to have given McIntyre the name and address of McGettigan, who she believed had broken into her Bishopbriggs home and stolen, among other items, baby mementoes.
McIntyre’s mother Margaret – who said she had a “great” relationship with Threshie – told the court she had phoned her son to tell him about the break-in.
Prosecutor Ian McSporran QC asked: “What did Kirk say?”
She replied: “He said, ‘That’s a shame’. He asked if there was anything taken and I said, ‘Quite a lot of things’.”
The court heard that on the afternoon of August 6, 2017, McIntyre was driven by his wife Jodie to McGettigan’s home in Clelland Avenue, in Bishopbriggs.
Mr McSporran said: “Where did the information about his name and address come from?” BY WILMA RILEY McIntyre, a painter and decorator to trade, replied: “I believe it was from Joanne. I was talking to her about painting her house. I was told it was him that broke into the house.”
Mr McSporran asked: “Who told you that?” McIntyre replied: “Joanne. I told her I would try to get her stuff back.
“It was the third time she’d had a break-in. She wanted back a couple of personal items. The police had done nothing about it.”
Mr McSporran asked McIntyre what his cousin Threshie had told him and he said: “She didn’t want me to do anything. Joanne never asked me to go anywhere, I asked her to get the address. I wanted to get stuff back for her.”
McIntyre, who has convictions for violence, said: “I was going to ask did he break into the house and where was the stuff ?” The court had heard McGettigan found a handbag and an envelope with Threshie’s name and address inside near the Stables pub between Bishopbriggs and Kirkintilloch and handed it in to police.
That is how his name and address became known to police. Mr McSporran asked McIntyre: “What if he said, ‘I handed in a handbag I found’?”
The witness said: “I would’ve asked if he had a rough idea who broke into the house.”
Asked how McGettigan would know that, McIntyre responded: “He got the blame of it, as far as I know it was the police.”
The court heard that McIntyre phoned Threshie 15 minutes before he went to Clelland Avenue and 20 minutes after he left.
He was asked why and replied: “Maybe just to tell her I’d been at that address and got no response.”
The trial continues.