A teenager jailed for the “appalling” murder of a schoolboy has succeeded in having the minimum term he’ll have to serve for his life sentence reduced.
Daniel Haig,18, stabbed Justin McLaughlin in the heart and left him to die on the platform of Glasgow’s High Street train station on October 16, 2021.
He was given a life sentence for the crime by judge Lord Clark at the HIgh Court in Edinburgh in August 2023. He was told he would have to serve a minimum term - known as a punishment part - of 16 years before he’d be eligible for parole.
This prompted lawyers for Haig to go to the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh to argue that the sentence given to Haig was “excessive”.
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