A man once linked to the murder of the grandson of crime matriarch “Big Mags” Haney has been found dead.
Brent Fairley was accused of attempting to pervert the course of justice following Barry Bradley’s death in 2010 and appeared in court alongside his killer.
Prosecutors accepted Fairley’s not guilty plea.
The 32-year-old was found dead at his home in Alva, Clackmannanshire, last Friday. No suspicious circumstances were reported by police.
was 19 when he killed Barry in a street attack in Alva in July 2010.
Cramb slashed Barry, also 19, on the neck with a piece of broken glass, cutting his carotid artery and jugular vein, then left him to bleed to death.
At her grandson’s funeral, Mags described Barry as her “lovable wee soldier”.
Cramb was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life with a minimum term of at least 16 years in 2011.
Fairley, who had been accused of hindering the investigation into Barry’s killing, was discharged from court at the start of the trial.
His friends and family yesterday paid tribute to him on social media after his sudden death.
Ashley McEwen wrote on Facebook: “Words can’t even describe the way I’m feeling right now. Even having to write that I’ve lost the most important person in my life.
“You were always the strongest out of us all and forever making us laugh.”
Another pal added: “Thinking of Brent’s family.”
Barry’s gran, Mags, was a drug-dealing mother-of-13 whose clan terrorised the Raploch estate in Stirling for years.
She later told the Record she had reformed and believed her notoriety had turned her family into targets. She died from cancer in 2013, aged 70.
is serving his sentence for murdering Barry in Shotts prison in Lanarkshire.
In 2017, we told how Mags Haney’s granddaughter, Michaela Bradley, set a trap in a bid to prove her brother’s murderer was using behind bars after previously being caught posting on Facebook.
She chatted with Cramb online, even though it’s illegal for prisoners to have access to mobiles in jail.
