Posted on 03/20/2003 8:49:35 PM PST by Dont Mention the War
Death trial told of `horror film' attack
Donna Watson
TWO murder accused played football with their victim's decapitated head after cutting up his body with a chainsaw, a court yeard yesterday.
Christopher Hutcheson, 22, and 19-year-old Andrew Ferguson acted like "something out of the Hannibal Lecter horror movie" in the attack on Daniel Hutcheson, a woman witness claimed.
Amanda Bain, 23, said the pair admitted they had tied up their victim before drowning him in the bath.
The High Court in Glasgow heard that they told her how they cut up his body with a chainsaw, gouged out his eyes using wooden kitchen spoons and had a kickabout with his head.
She told the court that Ferguson had allegedly cut out Daniel's tattoos with a craft knife before the two men burned his head, arms and legs in a giant oil drum and dumped his torso in the River Clyde.
Miss Bain also claimed the pair told her separately that they went out for drinks after drowning their victim in a bath and "had a good time" before buying the chainsaw.
She said Christopher Hutcheson confessed to her that he and Ferguson had killed his cousin Daniel, 23.
The court heard that Hutcheson told her they had given Daniel an option of losing his hand or his life but Ferguson "wanted to go further" so he put a rope round the victim's neck and drowned him in the bath.
Miss Bain wept as she said: "Daniel was still alive and Andrew drowned him."
Miss Bain said Hutcheson confessed as he sat on the end of their bed in his house in Woodville Street, Govan, Glasgow, in January 2001.
Miss Bain said that Hutcheson told her they had killed Daniel because he owed them £30 drug money.
Ferguson later confirmed Hutcheson's account of the killing, she told the court.
She said she asked him if he had murdered anyone else and Ferguson replied that they had attacked a man who owed them £300 drug money.
She added: "He said they tortured the man. They had poured boiling water over him and sliced his head like the Hannibal movie then threw him off a bridge."
Hutcheson denies murdering John Mitchell, 34, by pushing him to his death from a bridge near Strathaven, Lanarkshire.
He and Ferguson, of Burn Street, Dalmuir, Clydebank, deny murdering Daniel.
Both men and a third man, Scott McAuley, of Springboig, Glasgow, deny attempting to defeat the ends of justice. The trial continues.
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