Killer who stabbed his friend FOUR times during a frenzied attack is jailed for eight years
Daily MailA former music student guilty of stabbing a friend to death has been jailed for eight years. Francis McConnachie fatally attacked friend Thomas O’Rourke, 21, after a row between the pair in their hometown of Wishaw, Lanarkshire, on February 24 2023. Francis McConnachie fatally attacked friend Thomas O’Rourke, 21, after a row between the pair The 36-year-old had denied murdering O’Rourke and claimed self defence. Pictured: Coldstream Crescent, Wishaw, Lanarkshire McConnachie said: ‘I basically went after him.’ The court heard the pair had a ‘stand-up fight’ out in the street before McConnachie was pulled away. The judge told McConnachie: ‘You should be under no illusion of the scale of the dreadful loss sustained by Mr O’Rourke’s family occasioned by your fatal attack.’
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