Killer was out on bail for police officer attack when he murdered boy

Jordan McCready: Teenager attacked Jon Wilson as the youngster made his way home.

A teenager who murdered a 13-year-old while out on bail has been sentenced for attacking two police officers.

Jordan McCready, 17, was freed after assaulting the policemen then murdered Jon Wilson as the boy made his way home from a friend's house last September.

McCready had six months added to his life sentence on Monday by Sheriff Brian Murphy, who had given him bail before the killing.

After McCready admitted the murder in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, it emerged he had been freed under curfew five days earlier for assaulting the officers.

He appeared at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court on August 10 last year and admitted punching a special constable in the face, causing injury, and punching a police constable.

At the time of the assaults in the town's Dean Street, McCready had also been subject to a curfew order and two separate bail orders.

His sentence was then deferred until August 30 for background reports and he was remanded in custody after bail was refused.

But when he made his second appearance, Sheriff Murphy deferred sentence and granted defence solicitor David McSorley's request for bail. McCready was freed on a 7pm to 7am curfew but he breached the order and murdered Jon five days later. McCready also slashed a stranger and robbed a teenager of his mobile phone after the killing.

At the High Court in Glasgow earlier this month, McCready was given a life sentence after admitting the murder.

McCready told police how he had "jumped up and down on a boy's head".

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