England Move for Mad Killer

A TEENAGER who murdered a grandad was yesterday ordered to be held in a mental hospital indefinitely.

But Steven Brownlie, 16, will have to be moved to England, as there are no secure medical facilities in Scotland for someone of his age.

The thug repeatedly kicked and stamped on 63-year-old Alex Pullar’s head as he waited for a taxi.

The incident happened just 14 months after Mr Pullar’s diabetic wife Moira, 62, died after being mistakenly given a massive insulin overdose in hospital.

Mr Pullar was outside a pub when Brownlie launched the frenzied attack.

Neighbours heard a disturbance but dismissed it as a drunken clash.

Mr Pullar, of Abbotsford Court, Cumbernauld, near Glasgow, lay injured for most of the night before being discovered.

The retired university lecturer died later in hospital.

He face was left unrecognisable by the assault and bones in his throat and ribs were broken.

Brownlie boasted to pals how he had held on to a branch as he stamped on Mr Pullar’s head.

His murder trial was halted last when it became apparent the Cumbernauld teenager was mentally ill.

Psychiatrists then declared Brownlie was insane and, following a hearing, Lady Paton ruled he was responsible for Mr Pullar’s death.

The High Court in Edinburgh was told that, because Brownlie was under 18, there were no secure Scottish hospitals which could treat him.

Lady Paton agreed that he should be kept in the state hospital at Carstairs for two weeks pending his transfer to a hospital in Northampton.