A man has been arrested after a bodybuilder who recently won the Mr Scotland title was found stabbed to death on an industrial estate.
Police Scotland said on Tuesday they had detained a 43-year-old man after Michael O’Hanlon was fatally injured beside a car repair workshop at an industrial estate in Stevenston, near Irvine, at about midday on Monday.
Attempts by paramedics to resuscitate him failed and he was declared dead at the scene. The arrested man is expected in court in Kilmarnock later on Tuesday.
O’Hanlon, 45, ran the Musclebox bodybuilders and supplements shop in the east end of Glasgow with his partner Eileen Kirkwood, and had won the National Amateur Body-Builders’ Association Mr Scotland title.
The NABBA website said he had won the class two contest and the overall competition in 2016, having first won the title 23 years ago.
Soon after his body was found, a Police Scotland spokeswoman said: “Police and emergency services responded to a report of a 45-year-old man having being injured in the Moorpark industrial estate in Stevenston.
“The man was pronounced dead at the scene by ambulance staff. A postmortem examination will take place to establish the cause of death, which is being treated as suspicious.
“Inquiries are at an early stage, however detectives are following a positive line of enquiry.”
