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Two men are facing the prospect of life imprisonment following the death of Michael Beaton, 35, in Inverclyde due to a tragic case of mistaken identity. On the evening of 26 November 2023, in Greenock, Beaton was struck by a car driven by 21-year-old Richard Mullan and subsequently stabbed by 27-year-old Alexander McQuillan. The High Court in Glasgow uncovered that the original target that night was McQuillan himself, not Beaton.
The sequence of events unraveled during a pursuit when Mullan, aiming at McQuillan, collided with Beaton, who was trying to reach McQuillan. While Beaton lay gravely injured on the road, McQuillan attacked him with a machete. Despite emergency surgery at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, Beaton succumbed to his injuries later that day.
Prosecutor David McLean KC provided further insight into the incident, explaining that Mullan and Beaton had been out together in Greenock on the hunt for McQuillan. The two men were driving separate vehicles whe
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