Overview
- Cole Turley, 18, has pleaded guilty to murdering Kayden Moy, 16, who died after being stabbed at Irvine Beach on May 17, 2025.
- A 17-year-old witness gave a recorded police interview saying he saw Turley leap on Moy after Moy slipped and that he witnessed at least one stab.
- Detective Constable Ally Dunne told jurors that court-played stills and footage show Turley holding a knife above Moy and that Turley appeared to be a lone attacker in those images.
- Jay Stewart, 18, and an unnamed 15-year-old deny murder charges and have lodged special defences of incrimination while also facing allegations that they tried to pervert the course of justice by discarding bloodstained clothing, hiding knives and asking others to destroy evidence between May 17 and 21, 2025.
- The trial before Judge Lord Scott continues in the High Court in Glasgow and will turn on the jury’s assessment of eyewitness accounts, social‑media images and police testimony against a backdrop of local youth gang tensions between groups including Himshie and The Murray Boys.