A violent teenager who battered a 13-year-old boy to death while out on bail for assaulting two police officers has been jailed for life.
Jordan McCready, 17, from Dreghorn, admitted killing Jon Wilson as the boy made his way home from a friend’s house in Kilmarnock. He also admitted slashing a stranger and robbing a teenager of his mobile phone after committing the murder. McCready must serve at least 14 years before he can apply for parole.
A previous hearing at the High Court in Glasgow heard how McCready — who had been drinking vodka and Buckfast, and taken valium pills — attacked Jon near Queen’s Drive, Kilmarnock, as the youngster headed home from a friend’s house in the early hours of September 4 last year.
The second-year Kilmarnock Academy pupil was taken to hospital suffering from significant head injuries. He was found to have irreversible brain damage, and died on the next day.
When he was arrested, McCready shouted to police: “If he gets out of intensive care, I’m going to murder him. I’m only 16. I’ll do two year in Polmont for attempt murder.”
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McCready also claimed he was “glad” he had “done him in” and that he had been owed money. He also told how he had “jumped up and down on a boy’s head”. McCready added: “I dragged him down a lane and battered the life out of him.”
McCready also admitted slashing a stranger and robbing a teenager of his mobile phone after the killing. He was handed a mandatory life sentence for the murder at the High Court in Edinburgh.
After McCready admitted the murder, it emerged that he had been freed under curfew five days earlier for assaulting two police officers. The teenager appeared at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court on August 10, 2011, where he admitted repeatedly punching a special constable in the face, causing injury, and punching a police constable.
At the time of the assaults on the policemen, McCready had also been subject to a curfew order and two separate bail orders. His sentence was then deferred until August 30, 2011 for background reports and he was remanded in custody after bail was refused.
When he made his second appearance, Sheriff Brian Murphy deferred sentence and granted a request for bail. McCready was freed on a curfew, but he murdered Jon five days later.