Overview
- Lewis Budge, 22, pleaded guilty to culpable homicide at the High Court in Glasgow after originally facing a murder charge.
- The court heard he shoved 39-year-old Robert Bromell into the road on Oban’s Corran Esplanade at about 1.35am on September 6, 2023, as an ambulance approached on blue lights.
- Ambulance CCTV captured the deliberate push, contradicting Budge’s initial claim that Mr Bromell had stumbled into the vehicle’s path.
- Mr Bromell was taken to hospital with severe injuries and died soon after, according to evidence outlined in court.
- Lord Arthurson deferred sentence for reports and remanded Budge in custody, as Police Scotland called the crime “shocking and senseless.”