jrobertson
11-02-09, 05:24 PM
www.thecourier.co.uk (http://www.thecourier.co.uk) - The Courier - 11-Feb-09
Neighbour heard male voice shouting at child (http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2009/02/11/newsstory12624181t0.asp)
By Brian Smith
A NEIGHBOUR said he heard a male voice shouting at a child from Heather Boyd’s flat, directly below his, the day before her 23-month-old son Brandon Muir died.
Giving evidence yesterday at the High Court in Glasgow— where Boyd is accused of killing Brandon and co-accused Robert Cunningham of murdering him—Stewart Kidd (31) said, “I just heard shouting, not the way you should be shouting at a kid, telling the kid off, not in a way you should have told a kid off.”
The male voice was, “just shouting at the kid, telling him to stay where he was and not move. Bad manners, swearing at him,” he added.
He and a friend had been watching Soccer AM and he then went to his bedroom to change. It was then he heard shouting from the flat below.
Cross-examined by Ian Duguid QC, for Cunningham, he said he was aware of noise from the flat below, but it was, “nothing that I paid attention to.”
Sinead McLaughlin, a health visitor, said she and a colleague had talked about the way a 23-month-old toddler immediately wanted to be picked up by them, as soon as they arrived.
Read more (http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2009/02/11/newsstory12624181t0.asp)
Neighbour heard male voice shouting at child (http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2009/02/11/newsstory12624181t0.asp)
By Brian Smith
A NEIGHBOUR said he heard a male voice shouting at a child from Heather Boyd’s flat, directly below his, the day before her 23-month-old son Brandon Muir died.
Giving evidence yesterday at the High Court in Glasgow— where Boyd is accused of killing Brandon and co-accused Robert Cunningham of murdering him—Stewart Kidd (31) said, “I just heard shouting, not the way you should be shouting at a kid, telling the kid off, not in a way you should have told a kid off.”
The male voice was, “just shouting at the kid, telling him to stay where he was and not move. Bad manners, swearing at him,” he added.
He and a friend had been watching Soccer AM and he then went to his bedroom to change. It was then he heard shouting from the flat below.
Cross-examined by Ian Duguid QC, for Cunningham, he said he was aware of noise from the flat below, but it was, “nothing that I paid attention to.”
Sinead McLaughlin, a health visitor, said she and a colleague had talked about the way a 23-month-old toddler immediately wanted to be picked up by them, as soon as they arrived.
Read more (http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2009/02/11/newsstory12624181t0.asp)