Post by acnedriver on May 17, 2023 8:19:37 GMT
A THUG jailed for more than five years for assaulting a taxi driver could be tried for murder — after his victim later died.
Prosecutors could bring a fresh charge against Steven Greig, 45, for savagely attacking Mark Ward, 55, in a trivial row over a cigarette, sources say.
Mark was left brain-damaged and needing 24-hour care after Greig pushed him to the ground, causing him to hit his skull off concrete, and repeatedly booted him in the head in Dundee in April 2022.
He passed away in January following months in hospital, then a care home.
An insider said: “Mark’s loved ones are just devastated.
“He was a well-known face and everybody is calling for the same thing — for Mark’s attacker to be charged with murder.
"Mark’s life has been cruelly cut short and that should be recognised by law.”
The High Court in Edinburgh heard career criminal Greig, who has 94 previous convictions for 189 offences, snapped after Celtic fan Mark refused to give him a ciggie.
The brute pushed him onto the road, causing him to fall down a hill before kicking him over and over.
Greig, who fled the scene, showed no remorse as he was sentenced to five years, four months in January.
www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/10680650/brute-assaulted-taxi-driver-could-face-murder-charge/
Prosecutors could bring a fresh charge against Steven Greig, 45, for savagely attacking Mark Ward, 55, in a trivial row over a cigarette, sources say.
Mark was left brain-damaged and needing 24-hour care after Greig pushed him to the ground, causing him to hit his skull off concrete, and repeatedly booted him in the head in Dundee in April 2022.
He passed away in January following months in hospital, then a care home.
An insider said: “Mark’s loved ones are just devastated.
“He was a well-known face and everybody is calling for the same thing — for Mark’s attacker to be charged with murder.
"Mark’s life has been cruelly cut short and that should be recognised by law.”
The High Court in Edinburgh heard career criminal Greig, who has 94 previous convictions for 189 offences, snapped after Celtic fan Mark refused to give him a ciggie.
The brute pushed him onto the road, causing him to fall down a hill before kicking him over and over.
Greig, who fled the scene, showed no remorse as he was sentenced to five years, four months in January.
www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/10680650/brute-assaulted-taxi-driver-could-face-murder-charge/