Perth flat after an eight-day trial.Smullen (23) had claimed the fatal injury was inflicted when Barry pulled a knife on him and they both ”tripped and fell” during a struggle over the weapon.Two men and two women attacked by gang of 15 in popular Perth parkBut a jury at the High Court in Edinburgh rejected his defence of self-defence and returned a majority verdict of culpable homicide on Thursday.Barry was wearing just boxer shorts when he was knifed in the chest after going back to the flat with Smullen’s “on/off” partner Shannon Beattie (25).Wearing a dark suit, Smullen showed no emotion as the verdict was delivered.He had denied assaulting Barry in Perth’s Wallace Court, striking him on the body with a knife or similar instrument, and.
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