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| William Paterson guilty of Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll murder | William Paterson guilty of Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll murder |
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| A man has been jailed for life after being convicted of murdering Glasgow gangland figure Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll. | |
| William Paterson, 35, had denied shooting the 29-year-old dead in the Asda car park in the city's Robroyston area on 13 January 2010. | William Paterson, 35, had denied shooting the 29-year-old dead in the Asda car park in the city's Robroyston area on 13 January 2010. |
| He claimed he was elsewhere at the time and incriminated six other people. | He claimed he was elsewhere at the time and incriminated six other people. |
| Paterson was convicted of murder following a two-week trial at the High Court in Glasgow. He was told he must serve a minimum of 22 years in jail. | |
| During the trial, the prosecution described the shooting as "a brazen, organised assassination" that put the public at risk. | |
| Jurors heard how Paterson's DNA was found on the handle of a bag that one of the murder weapons was found in. | |
| The DNA of another man, Ross Monaghan, who was cleared of the murder in 2012, and was known to Paterson, was found on the handle of the other gun. | |
| The court was told that "10 days after the shooting with the police investigation in full flow" Paterson had left Scotland for Spain. | |
| Jurors also heard telephone evidence suggesting a mobile phone attributed to Paterson by police, ending in 1411, was near the scene of Asda at the time of the shooting. | |
| The court also heard that another phone, which was accepted as being Paterson's, seemed to be "joined at the hip" with the other phone. | |
| Both phones, the jury was told, were "co-located", meaning they were active within five minutes of each other and on 87 different occasions throughout January 2010, never contacted one another and were always in the same area. | |
| The prosecution said the 1411 number could be traced to the area where a Volkswagen Golf - believed to have been involved in the shooting - was captured on CCTV a short distance away from Asda shortly before the murder. | |
| The phone was traced near Asda at the time of the murder, then at the area where the weapons were dumped in Coatbridge. |