Young Scots dad gunned down in garden after rival was humiliated in online video
25.05.2022 - 21:57
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
A man was shot to death in his back garden after a rival was humiliated in an online video.
Graham Williamson was executed in broad daylight at his home in Blantyre, Lanarkshire on August 17 2020.
Jurors watched horror CCTV footage of a masked gunman racing up the street, blasting the 26 year-old in the back before jumping into a getaway car.
Derek Felvus, 25, James Baillie, 26, and Thomas Duris, 28, were convicted on Wednesday at the High Court in Glasgow of the murder.
The trial heard of a "toxic feud" between flash drug dealer Felvus, Graham and the victim's friends.
The extreme violence was sparked after Felvus was recorded hiding in a Chinese restaurant after being confronted days before the killing.
The mobile phone clip was uploaded to social media with the caption: "S******g".
Felvus then teamed up with Baillie and Duris to get revenge on Graham.
Afterwards Duris - the man who pulled the trigger - boasted to an associate: "No one will want it any more. This will take us to another level."
The trio all face life sentences when they return to the dock next month.
The trial heard there had been a number of tit for tat incidents in the lead-up to the shooting.
Days before there had been an incident near The Libertine pub in Hamilton, Lanarkshire before Graham's car was torched.
On August 14, Graham and his associates confronted Felvus and a friend at The Shanghai Teahouse in Bothwell, Lanarkshire.
It was there panicking Felvus was captured trying to hold a door closed while begging staff for a knife to defend himself.
The footage was then put on Instagram.
In his closing speech, prosecutor Greg Farrell said: "The purpose was to embarrass and humiliate Felvus, show him hiding and calling for the police.
"Felvus (in his