Police ScotlandA teenager who pleaded guilty to killing Kayden Moy on an Ayrshire beach has lodged an appeal against his life sentence.
Cole Turley, 18, admitted to fatally stabbing the 16-year-old boy on Irvine Beach amid a dispute between rival gangs from East Kilbride.
A 15-year-old boy, who can’t be named for legal reasons, and co-accused Jay Stewart, 19, also stood trial at the High Court in Glasgow for their part in the murder. Both were found guilty.
The three teens, members of the Murray Boys gang, fled the busy beach. They went on to create a rap song mocking Kayden.
Turley also acted out the vicious murder on the couch of a friend whose flat was used as a hideout.
All three were given life sentences. Stewart and Turley are required to spend a minimum of 16 years behind bars.
The 15-year-old was jailed for a minimum of 14 years, which will start in secure accommodation until he is 19.
Police ScotlandHowever, on Tuesday, Turley lodged an appeal against his life sentence.
Kayden’s dad, Paul Moy, says the appeal has dragged the family “straight back into the nightmare.”
He wrote: “We will never understand how someone who took our son’s life can now ask for another chance. Sixteen years never felt like justice to us in the first place, and now we’re faced with the possibility of having to relive everything all over again.
“Our son was robbed of his future, and we were robbed of a lifetime with him. That sentence can never compare to the life that was taken or the pain our family lives with every single day.”
Rival gangs
Kayden and a group of friends went to Irvine Beach on the afternoon of May 17.
Later that day, one of Kayden’s friends attacked an associate of the Murray Boys. Jurors heard that Kayden had stepped in to break it up.
After hearing about the attack, Turley, Stewart and the 15-year-old made their way from East Kilbride to Irvine Beach armed with weapons.
They went on to throw rocks at the rival group. Kayden and two friends, who were unarmed, confronted them.
Turley brandished a large lockback knife while Stewart held a police-style extendable baton.
One of Kayden’s friends, who gave evidence, told the pair to get rid of their weapons and offered to “box” them in a fist fight.
Kayden and his friends then ran, but he slipped.
Turley plunged the blade into the teenager twice – on the body and thigh – before fleeing.
Stewart brandished his baton and was heard to shout: “Murray Boys”. He then told a witness at the scene: “He f***ing deserved it.”
Kayden hobbled down from the sand dune where the stabbing took place to the beach below.
His friend recalled: “I remember blood going down Kayden’s leg and Kayden going really white and his eyes started to close.”
Another friend told the court that Kayden fell unconscious and his lips turned blue.
He was given first aid by a woman at the beach before emergency crews took over.
He was taken to hospital by ambulance, but Kayden suffered a second cardiac arrest and died at 11.33pm.
The cause of death was “stab wound to the trunk”.
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