An urgent search has been launched after a Scots teenager vanished last night.
22.07.2022 - 16:53 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A gunman who murdered a young father in a shooting attack near to a children's play park lost a bid to reduce his minimum jail term today. Jordan Owens was jailed for life and ordered to serve at least 23 years as a punishment part of the sentence after he was convicted of the murder of Jamie Lee in Castlemilk, Glasgow.
Owens, 28, challenged the minimum term which he must serve before he is eligible to seek parole as "excessive" at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh. But Scotland's senior judge, the Lord Justice General Lord Carloway, said: "The court is unable to hold this punishment part is excessive and it will therefore refuse the appeal."
Lord Carloway, who heard the appeal with Lord Pentland and Lord Matthews, said it had been submitted that they should take into account Owens' relative youth at the time of the murder on July 8, 2017, and his immaturity. But the senior judge said the offence involved the use of a firearm in a lethal way in the context of gang violence in the Castlemilk area.
He said it was inevitably going to attract a punishment part of a considerable length, particularly as Owens was also convicted of attempting to murder a second man, Joseph Lee, who was also shot in the arm on the same night on land near to Ballantay Terrace, Glasgow.
Lord Beckett, the trial judge who sentenced Owens, told him: "Jamie Lee lost his life in his early 20s. His family have had to suffer his loss and his child will grow up without his father."
Owens, from Castlemilk, had armed himself with a gun and equipped himself with a bullet proof vest before the fatal confrontation. He subsequently fled abroad as a fugitive but was tracked down in Portugal and returned to Scotland to face justice.
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