February 12, 2025
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Dundee man guilty of stabbing friend to death over drugs

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A man has been found guilty of killing his friend after chasing him and stabbing him multiple times in the backside.

A jury at the High Court in Dundee found 42-year-old Jackie Doig guilty of the culpable homicide of Frankie Melvin in August 2020.

Doig had faced a murder charge but claimed self-defence in stabbing his former friend five times.

He was convicted of the lesser charge after a week-long trial.

Doig said in evidence he had stabbed the 34-year-old Arbroath father “a number of times” during a fight that left him dying in the street.

He told the week-long trial at the High Court in Dundee: “If it wasn’t him, it would have been me.”

‘Absolutely raging’

The court was shown footage of Doig – who claimed his victim had stolen four bags of drugs from him – chasing Mr Melvin around various streets in Arbroath.

“I wanted my stuff back. I was absolutely raging at him at the time,” Doig said, adding that they had been friends prior to the incident.

Mr Melvin died from a stab wound to the buttock, which severed the superior gluteal artery in his pelvis, causing catastrophic internal bleeding.

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