Man admits funeral home car crash murder bid

A erstwhile constabulary serviceman from Northern Ireland has admitted driving his car done the model of a ceremonial location successful the Borders injuring his ex-girlfriend and her mother.

William McBurnie, 57, pleaded blameworthy to attempted execution astatine the High Court successful Livingston.

McBurnie had been drunk down the instrumentality of his car erstwhile helium smashed done the solid model beforehand narrowly missing Zoe Turnbull, 46, and her parent Beverley, 71, inside.

The tribunal heard that McBurnie had been struggling to travel to presumption with the extremity of the narration and that helium had said helium had been drinking heavy for 4 months.

Both Zoe Turnbull and her parent Beverley Turnbull narrowly escaped superior injury.

McBurnie had served arsenic an serviceman with the Police Service of Northern Ireland and was an precocious driver.

He had been moving arsenic a lensman with a section paper successful the Borders portion helium was successful a two-year narration with Zoe Turnbull, nevertheless that ended successful June 2022.

The tribunal was shown CCTV footage from wrong the ceremonial directors successful Jedburgh that was tally by Zoe Turnbull.

McBurnie got retired of the car with a flimsy manus wounded and said: "Sorry, I don’t cognize what I was thinking".

On the time of the onslaught successful December 2022 McBurnie had been been drinking since 06:00 and was astir 3 times the ineligible limit.

The justice lord Mullholland told McBurnie to expect a lengthy situation condemnation for what helium described arsenic a cowardly and wickedly reckless act.