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convicted of killing a man after catching him alone with his partner and believing they’d had sex.Robbie Smullen was found guilty of stabbing 22-year-old Barry Dixon in the heart in a 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.But 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 at

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

trial heard.Robbie Smullen in accused of murdering 22-year-old Barry Dixon who died in hospital after being discovered injured in a Perth flat.Giving evidence at the High Court in Edinburgh on Tuesday, Smullen said Barry had come at him with a blade and he grabbed his arm.The 23-year-old said he “fell on top of him” and only realised Barry had been wounded when standing back up.Smullen told the jury he was “terrified” and “panicked”, fleeing the flat he shared with partner Shannon Beattie without calling for an ambulance.He told how he’d found Shannon alone in his flat with Barry, who was only wearing boxer shorts, and thought the pair were “having sex”.Smullen said Shannon, 25, had went into the bathroom after he’d arrived home and didn’t

fatal stabbing, a trial heard.Mary Smullen, 46, is accused of trying to cover-up the alleged involvement of Robbie Smullen, 23, in murdering Barry Dixon.The court had heard how she rushed round to a Perth flat to find Barry, 22, lying badly injured on a mattress.The flat was occupied by her son’s “on/off” partner, Shannon Beattie, 25, who previously told the trial she’d witnessed Robbie Smullen stab Barry in the chest.The High Court in Edinburgh was earlier played a transcript of Mary Smullen making a 999 call from the flat at 2.35am on June 4 2019.Asked where Shannon was, Smullen told the operator: “I think it was her who done it.”On Monday PC Robert Rodger, 48, gave evidence that he took a statement from Smullen in her home at around

murder trial heard.Shannon Beattie told how she’d been alone with Barry Dixon for a few hours after she’d spent the evening drinking and taking cocaine.She said Barry was wearing boxer shorts and lying on a mattress when her boyfriend Robbie Smullen arrived home and accused them of sleeping together.The 25-year-old mum told the court previously how she saw Smullen stab Barry, 22, in the chest.Beattie said: “We didn’t have sex. I don’t recall having sexual intercourse with Barry.

stab a young man after accusing him of having sex with her, a trial heard.Shannon Beattie, 25, described how victim Barry Dixon told Robbie Smullen, “I’ve not been with your bird”, as he stood in the couple’s flat in just his boxer shorts.The two men started punching each other, she said, and “Robbie stabbed him in the chest”.The court heard Barry “laughed to begin with, I think because he didn’t know he’d been stabbed” then “he just froze” and fell onto a mattress.Shannon said she’d went with Barry back to her Perth flat where they’d kissed, but “nothing sexual” had happened she could recall.She said Barry was in his boxer shorts to be “comfy” when Smullen arrived back at the home.Earlier that day Shannon said she’d argued with her