THE trial of a Glasgow murder suspect who denies shooting a young dad to death will hear evidence from beyond the grave, a court heard.

Jordan Owen, also known as Owens, will be tried by a jury at Glasgow High Court on February 21 next year. The trial is expected to last eight to 10 days.

He is accused of gunning down and killing Jamie Lee, 23, in a playpark near Ballantay Terrace in the city's Castlemilk area on July 8, 2017.

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Prosecutors claim Owen, 27, did "discharge a firearm" and that Jamie was struck on the body with a "projectile".

Jamie, who celebrated the birth of his son just three weeks before his death, is said to have been left so severely injured that he died from alleged gunshot wounds the next day in hospital.

Owen faces two separate charges of attempting to murder Joseph Lee and Jordan Loughery at the same place by also shooting at them during the same incident.

His QC Brian McConnachie confirmed that Owen continued to pleaded not guilty to all the allegations.

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Advocate depute Lyndsey Dalziel told a preliminary hearing at the High Court in Livingston that the Crown case would include statements from two key witnesses who have died.

She said: “There are statements from the deceased. There are also statements from another witness now deceased by the name of Ryan Hunt. She said a new vulnerable witness had also been added to the list of people who are due to testify for the prosecution.

Ms Dalziel went on: “The vast majority of witnesses are eye witnesses. It will be the Crown’s intention to show CCTV footage because it’s a record of the location of individuals and an approximation of people holding weapons and the like, so for that reason it’s material and it will require to be shown.

“If there’s any dispute with some of the eye witnesses they may be questioned about it. It’s not graphic although it’s acknowledged it could be distressing.”

She said the video footage, recorded from some distance away from the site of the alleged murder included the sound of “muffled bangs”. She said the prosecution had asked a forensic expert to correlate the sounds with gunshots with “relatively neutral” results.

She added: “There’s nothing in the way of wounds or graphic images that can be seen. It shows people walking away and the deceased sitting down then lying down. That might be distressing in the overall circumstances for some jurors.”

She said the Crown would take on board judge Lord Beckett’s suggestion that still images taken from the video could be used to avoid overly distressing jurors by repeatedly screening the footage.