Loving father stabbed to death in ‘brutal and cowardly’ attack by random stranger

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A drunken lout knifed a father to death in a completely random attack before going on the run. Violent Ashley Keegan stabbed John Bell seven times following a street argument in which the victim told his killer to “calm down”.

The 22-year-old confessed to carrying the 27cm long kitchen blade on his person with one of the blows fatally puncturing the dad-of-one’s lung, giving paramedics little chance of saving him.

37-year-old Bell was found shortly after the violent attack slumped against a wall in a pool of his own blood, as Keegan fled the scene before police tracked him down to a nearby nature reserve.

The court heard how Keegan had a lengthy record of offending, and according to the judge being sent to jail was the only option for