{"id":61220,"date":"2026-09-21T18:48:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/two-in-court-charged-with-murder-over-armadale-shooting\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T18:48:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:48:25","slug":"two-in-court-charged-with-murder-over-armadale-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/two-in-court-charged-with-murder-over-armadale-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Two in court charged with murder over Armadale shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Two men have appeared in court charged with murdering another man who was shot dead in West Lothian.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police were called to a property on Harestanes Road in Armadale at about 11:50 on 12 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Billy Watson, 35, was found injured and died at the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Corrie McQueen, 29 and Martin Patterson, 44, appeared at Livingston Sheriff Court on Monday, charged with murder and attempting to defeat the ends of justice. Both men made no plea and were remanded in custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Friday Frank McCarthy, 57, faced identical charges when he appeared before the same court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He made no plea and was remanded in custody.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cwyvz201326yo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men have appeared in court charged with murdering another man who was shot dead in West Lothian. Police were called to a property on Harestanes Road in Armadale at about 11:50 on 12 September. Billy Watson, 35, was found injured and died at the scene. Corrie McQueen, 29 and Martin Patterson, 44, appeared at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[16820,607,595,880,875],"class_list":["post-61220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-armadale","tag-charged","tag-court","tag-murder","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61222,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61220\/revisions\/61222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}