A MAN yesterday told a jury that a murder accused confessed to him that he had stabbed someone.

Ian Wallace was giving evidence at the trial of 31-year-old Barry McGrory, who denies murdering 28-year-old Paul McGee, a guardsman with the Scots Guards. McGrory has lodged a special defence of incrimination, blaming Ian Wallace for the murder on October 25, 2009, at McConnell Road, Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire.

Mr Wallace, who was jailed for 15 months after admitting assaulting Mr McGee, 28, a taxi driver and two women, told the High Court in Glasgow of the night in question.

Mr Wallace said that he had been in a car with McGrory on the back road between Johnstone and Lochwinnoch when a taxi cut them up and he told McGrory, who was driving, to follow the cab.

In evidence Mr Wallace admitted he walked up to the taxi driver and assaulted him, then got into a fight with Mr McGee.

Mr Wallace told the court he ended up lying on the ground with Mr McGee on top of him.

He said Mr McGee got up and he managed to get back to the car, where McGrory told him: "Leave them and get back in the car."

Mr Wallace said after the incident he and McGrory drove off on another back road towards Johnstone.

He claimed in the course of the 15-minute journey McGrory told him he had stabbed Mr McGee twice.

Mr Wallace added: "The first time he had only stabbed him a wee bit and the second time he struck it right in. He said he had done him." The trial continues.