The nine-year-old daughter of a man who was murdered outside his mum's pub had a heartbreaking response to the killers being jailed.
Craig Corrall, 39, and David “Div” Callaghan, 30, pounced on 30-year-old Owen Hassan in 2018.
But Owen’s innocent young daughter, Harleigh, asked if Callaghan's daughter 'would lose her daddy too' if he went to jail.
The 30-year-old dad was stabbed in the heart outside the Old Stag Inn, run by his mum Ann Marie Lynch, in Pollokshaws, Glasgow.
She found her son covered in blood and chased his attackers, the Daily Record reports.
Yesterday, Alison Price, the mother of Owen’s daughter, Harleigh, spoke about how their girl is coping.
She said: “She’s old enough to Google things. It’s tragic. She knows that Div Callaghan has a wee girl too. She asked if he goes to jail would she lose her daddy too.
“I said she wouldn’t see him and she said that would be a shame. She’s not old enough to know that he doesn’t deserve to see his children, while Owen has been taken from her for good.”
Jurors at the High Court in Glasgow heard how raging Corrall was “prepared to do 20 years” after discovering Owen had been seeing his ex-lover.
Corrall was locked up for at least 20 years and six months while Callaghan was sentenced to 20 years.
The thugs were jailed for life at the High Court in Glasgow after they were convicted of murder.
Alison said: “Corrall got more than the 20 years he asked for, which makes me happy, and I’m happy Div won’t see his children the way Owen won’t see his. Twenty years plus, I’m still taking that in.
“I hope those evil rats rot, I really do.”
Owen was also the father of a young son, Owen jnr, with girlfriend Courtney Thomson.
After his death, she posted photos of the three of them together on social media with a tribute saying: “My heart is broken. Every time I look at our boy’s face, it breaks all over again.”
Judge Lord Woolman, who sentenced the men, said the attack was planned and vicious.
Owen’s mum told the trial how she found her dying son covered in blood after he was set upon on November 7, 2018.
Ann Marie, 55, said: “I was trying to get a phone to call an ambulance. I was just trying to help him.”
She went after Owen’s attackers as they fled.One yelled at her: “F*** off, missus.”
Her friend James Nolan also came to Owen’s aid. He said of the weapon: “It was a butcher’s knife. It was big, seriously big.”
Corrall’s former partner Stephanie Kinnaird was quizzed during the police probe.
She said Corrall found out she’d had a brief relationship with Owen and bombarded her with a string of threatening and abusive texts.
One message sent by Corrall stated: “I told you. It’s me or him who dies.” Another said: “You mean nothing to me – and remember I am prepared to die or do 20 years.”
The trial heard Corrall boasted to a friend that he had “stabbed the f*** out” of Owen.
Though the murder was captured on CCTV, prosecutors said it was a challenge to identify the attackers due to the poor quality of the footage.
However, investigators were able to use forensic analysis of the way the killers walk – to help identify them.
Prosecutor David Green said: “The conviction was a result of excellent investigative work using modern techniques. This was a violent premeditated attack and these men were well aware of the consequences.”
