Court hears from shooting victim

Alex McKinnon died after the incident at the Marmion pub

A man who survived a pub shooting told a murder trial how he saw his brother-in-law on the ground apparently unconscious.

James Hendry, 27, said he heard two bangs before Alexander McKinnon fell to the floor during the incident in the Marmion bar in Edinburgh's Gracemount.

James Bain, 22, Richard Cosgrove, 21, and Bernard Young, 19, deny charges relating to the death in April.

The case at the the High Court in Edinburgh continues.

Special defences

Bain, Cosgrove and Young, all described as prisoners, all deny shooting Mr McKinnon and murdering him at the bar.

They also deny discharging a sawn-off shotgun at Mr Hendry and attempting to murder him.

Bain further denies a charge of assaulting Dionne Hendry, his ex-partner.

He and Cosgrove are also alleged to have been concerned in the supply of cocaine.

Cosgrove and Young have lodged special defences to the shooting charges.

Cosgrove maintains that any involvement was only because he was acting under duress and in fear of his own life as a consequence of the actions of Bain.

Young has claimed alibi.

Black gun

At the court, Mr Hendry was shown a blown up CCTV image taken inside the pub of himself and of a figure with an object.

He said: "That looks like, to me, a black gun. Something is pointing to me definitely."

The road contractor said he had gone to the pub on the Saturday evening of 22 April with his brother-in-law Alex McKinnon, 32, and others.

He had been at the bar when he said he got shot. "I felt a hit - a sharp pain to my chest. I have definitely been hit and heard a bang.

"I turned round, realised I was bleeding and heard another bang and turned round and saw Alex McKinnon on the ground," he said.

A shooting took place at the Marmion pub on 22 April

Mr Hendry said he was in shock and in quite a lot of pain. "I was standing for a bit then I went down."

He said Mr McKinnon, a former Scottish bantamweight boxing champion, looked unconscious to him.

He said there was panic in the bar and a woman went to his aid, trying to stop the bleeding, before paramedics and police arrived and he was taken to hospital.

The father-of-three said he had found it quite difficult to sleep at night since the incident but was getting back to normal.

The trial before Lord Uist continues.