The Scottish Sun
A SCOTS prosecutor claimed he was stunned that a customer at his family’s pub planned to assassinate him.
Darren Harty, 37, gave evidence yesterday at the trial of Martin Ready, 41, at the High Court in Glasgow.
Ready is charged with attempting to conspire to murder Mr Harty by teaming up with others via the dark web to target the lawyer.
It is alleged to have occurred between May 29 2021 and September 15 2022 at an address in North Lanarkshire.
A joint minute of agreed evidence stated that Ready set up and used cryptocurrency accounts at the time.
The document says Read accessed a “dark” website called the Online Killers Market under the username “Harry Brown.”
It is claimed a total of 0.2913 Bitcoin – valued at £5,071 – was transferred to the administrator of the Online Killers Market “as payment” for the “assassination” of Mr Harty.
Ready pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempting to conspire with another or others to murder Mr Harty.
He has lodged a special defence of lacking criminal responsibility.
The court heard from Mr Harty who claimed that he knew Ready as a customer from his family‘s pub in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, where he worked before starting university in 2014.
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