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Perth man who died after being stabbed through the heart have said they are “devastated” his killer’s mum has escaped jail for attempting to pervert the course of justice. Robbie Smullen (23) was convicted last month of killing 22-year-old Barry Dixon.

Robbie Smullen knifed Barry Dixon in the heart after catching the pair alone.Barry, 22, had been wearing just his boxer shorts when he was killed after going back to Shannon’s flat in Perth.Shannon told Smullen, 23, they did not have sex and Barry was only in his underwear because he had spilled wine on his clothes.But he launched a fatal attack and last week a jury at the High Court in Edinburgh found him guilty of culpable homicide.Now Shannon has said she is wracked with guilt over Barry’s

convicted of killing a man after catching him alone with his partner and believing they’d had sex.Robbie Smullen was found guilty of stabbing 22-year-old Barry Dixon in the heart in a Perth flat after an eight-day trial.Smullen, 23, had claimed the fatal injury was inflicted when Barry pulled a knife on him and they both ”tripped and fell” during a struggle over the weapon.But a jury at the High Court in Edinburgh rejected his defence of self-defence and returned a majority verdict of culpable

trial heard.Robbie Smullen in accused of murdering 22-year-old Barry Dixon who died in hospital after being discovered injured in a Perth flat.Giving evidence at the High Court in Edinburgh on Tuesday, Smullen said Barry had come at him with a blade and he grabbed his arm.The 23-year-old said he “fell on top of him” and only realised Barry had been wounded when standing back up.Smullen told the jury he was “terrified” and “panicked”, fleeing the flat he shared with partner Shannon Beattie

fatal stabbing, a trial heard.Mary Smullen, 46, is accused of trying to cover-up the alleged involvement of Robbie Smullen, 23, in murdering Barry Dixon.The court had heard how she rushed round to a Perth flat to find Barry, 22, lying badly injured on a mattress.The flat was occupied by her son’s “on/off” partner, Shannon Beattie, 25, who previously told the trial she’d witnessed Robbie Smullen stab Barry in the chest.The High Court in Edinburgh was earlier played a transcript of Mary Smullen

Perth man to death was heard saying, “I’m glad I killed him, he’s a d**k”, a court heard.Robbie Smullen is accused of murdering 22-year-old Barry Dixon who died in hospital after receiving a stab wound to the heart.His mother, Mary Smullen, is in the dock alongside him accused of trying to cover up his alleged involvement.Both deny the charges against them and Robbie Smullen has lodged a special defence of self-defence at his trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.On Friday the court heard from

murder trial heard.Shannon Beattie told how she’d been alone with Barry Dixon for a few hours after she’d spent the evening drinking and taking cocaine.She said Barry was wearing boxer shorts and lying on a mattress when her boyfriend Robbie Smullen arrived home and accused them of sleeping together.The 25-year-old mum told the court previously how she saw Smullen stab Barry, 22, in the chest.Beattie said: “We didn’t have sex. I don’t recall having sexual intercourse with Barry.

stab a young man after accusing him of having sex with her, a trial heard.Shannon Beattie, 25, described how victim Barry Dixon told Robbie Smullen, “I’ve not been with your bird”, as he stood in the couple’s flat in just his boxer shorts.The two men started punching each other, she said, and “Robbie stabbed him in the chest”.The court heard Barry “laughed to begin with, I think because he didn’t know he’d been stabbed” then “he just froze” and fell onto a mattress.Shannon said she’d went with

murder trial heard.Barry Dixon later suffered a cardiac arrest in hospital while surgeons battled to repair the damage and he died.Robbie Smullen denied murdering the 22-year-old at the first day of his trial at the High Court in Edinburgh on Tuesday.His mother, Mary Smullen, is in the dock alongside him accused of trying to cover up his alleged involvement in the killing.Both deny the charges against them and Robbie Smullen, 23, has lodged a special defence of self-defence.Barry was found badly