Frew accused breaks down in dock
A teenager has broken down in court as he said he had no memory of stabbing schoolmate Jack Frew to death.
Craig Roy wept as he told the jury: "I want to know what happened that night. If I could make things right again, I would. But I can't."
Roy, 19, was giving evidence for the second day in the trial at the High Court in Glasgow. He denies murdering 16-year-old Jack in East Kilbride on May 6 2010.
It is alleged that Roy repeatedly struck and stabbed Jack in the neck and body with a knife. The trial has previously been told Jack was left with 20 separate stab wounds and a slash across his throat.
The jury has been told that at an earlier hearing Roy had entered a guilty plea to culpable homicide, but it was rejected by the Crown.
He told the court that he took responsibility for the killing, but claimed he had no memory of the attack on Jack. He said he only recalled taking out a knife, and then seeing the younger boy lying bleeding on the ground with his throat cut. He insisted: "I did not murder Jack Frew."
Roy has told the jury he was "blackmailed" by Jack, who threatened to tell his boyfriend about a sexual encounter they shared in a school toilet. He said he arranged to meet Jack after school and intended to "scare" him into leaving him alone by taking a knife with him.
When they met that night, Jack led him to a secluded spot and exposed himself, Roy told the court. He said he asked him to "put it away" and then pulled out the knife.
He told the jury: "I remember being angry. Extremely angry. Jack was lying on the ground. I was trying to help him. He was bleeding from the neck. I was still holding the knife. It was covered in blood. I was terrified that it was me that had caused this to Jack."
But Jennifer Bain, prosecuting, suggested that Roy's memory loss was "a convenience". The trial, before Lord Doherty, was adjourned until Monday.
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