Police ScotlandTwo killers guilty of murdering a man more than six years ago are appealing their convictions.
Raymond Platt, 56, and Joseph McCulloch, 50, were convicted earlier this month of being involved in the fatal attack on Tony Ferns on April 18, 2019.
The 33-year-old was stabbed in the heart as he sat in his car near his mother’s home in Thornliebank, East Renfrewshire.
Police ScotlandPlatt – already a convicted killer – was jailed for a minimum of 23 years following the trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
Former engineering firm site manager McCulloch was sentenced to at least 18 years.
The Court of Appeal in Edinburgh confirmed lawyers for each are now challenging the conviction.
No dates for any potential hearings have been set.
Robert Park, 69, and Craig Colquhoun, 39, were also convicted of murder after trial.
The pair were ordered to serve at least 20 years each.
Tony was said to have been murdered following a so-called feud with Park.
Tony had blamed him for his disabled brother being injured in a road accident several years earlier.
After a number of clashes between the pair, Park was said to have been the “instigator” in plotting the killing of the tiler.
Prosecutors stated it was Platt who carried out the stabbing. Colquhoun had been the getaway driver with McCulloch, earlier tracking Tony’s movements.
Lord Fairley called the murder “a targeted and pre-planned assassination”.
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