{"id":10674,"date":"2024-09-09T16:38:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T16:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/violent-offender-murdered-vulnerable-man-in-edinburgh-flat\/"},"modified":"2024-09-09T16:38:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T16:38:26","slug":"violent-offender-murdered-vulnerable-man-in-edinburgh-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/violent-offender-murdered-vulnerable-man-in-edinburgh-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"Violent offender murdered vulnerable man in Edinburgh flat"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Garry O’Neill was fatally stabbed in a flat in Edinburgh<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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A violent offender has been convicted of murdering a vulnerable man in a flat in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

Jamie Boulton stabbed Garry O’Neill with a large knife at the property on Primrose Street, Leith, on 6 June last year.<\/p>\n

The 55-year-old, who had 43 previous convictions including five assaults, had denied murdering Mr O’Neill but was unanimously found guilty.<\/p>\n

His brother Nathan Boulton, 49, denied trying to cover up the killing but was also unanimously convicted of attempting to defeat the ends of justice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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They were both remanded in custody at the High Court in Edinburgh ahead of sentencing next month.<\/p>\n

Lady Poole told Jamie Boulton, who cannot be pictured for legal reasons: “It was a cowardly attack on a vulnerable man.”<\/p>\n

The judge said victim impact statements prepared by the daughter and former partner of Mr O’Neill made it clear he was “much loved and sorely missed”.<\/p>\n

The judge said given the serious and extensive nature of his criminal record and the “appalling nature” of the murder, she would get a background report prepared on him before sentencing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Nathan Boulton was convicted of trying to cover up his older brother’s crime<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Jamie Boulton had been freed on three separate bail orders from Edinburgh Sheriff Court, made in September 2021 and September and November the following year, before he murdered Mr O’Neill.<\/p>\n

The court heard Mr O’Neill was sitting on a couch when Boulton stabbed him with a large knife on the body.<\/p>\n

It also heard his younger brother retrieved the knife and clothing worn by his brother from a flat in Lochend Road following the attack in a bid to defeat the ends of justice.<\/p>\n

He then put the knife in a drain and clothes in a bin.<\/p>\n

Det Insp Kevin Tait, of Police Scotland, said: \u201cOur thoughts are with Mr O\u2019Neill\u2019s family and friends and we hope that the result in court brings them a degree of closure.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a deliberate act that ended in a death and Jamie Boulton will now face the consequences of his actions that day.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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