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Life for men who murdered victim in city street

Two men have been given life sentences for the brutal and merciless murder of a man outside his home.

VICTIM: William McKeeney was murdered in a street in Glasgow's Pollokshields.
VICTIM: William McKeeney was murdered in a street in Glasgow's Pollokshields.

Asif Rehman and Adel Ishaq, both 20, knocked William McKeeney unconscious and repeatedly stamped on his head and body in the street in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow on January 15.

The 57-year-old was walking home from a nearby pub with a fish supper when he was set upon by the pair in an attack witnessed by Mr McKeeney's girlfriend from the window of their home. He died later in hospital.

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