13:32 EDT, 23 April 2021
A witness who told police of plans to murder Trainspotting sequel T2 actor Bradley Welsh in the month before his death has been accused of speaking fantastic untruths .
The 48-year-old boxing coach, Doyle in the film, was fatally shot at his flat in the west end of Edinburgh on April 17 2019.
Sean Orman, 30, has pleaded not guilty to all 15 charges against him, including murder, attempted murder, firearms and drugs offences.
Witness Dean White previously told the High Court in Edinburgh he had seen the accused at his brother Robert s home with a man known as Peem, James Davidson, in March 2019.
12:04 EDT, 22 April 2021
Police were warned of plans to murder Trainspotting sequel T2 actor Bradley Welsh a month before his death, a court heard today.
Boxing coach Mr Welsh, 48, who starred alongside Ewan McGregor in the film, died after a shooting at his flat in New Town, Edinburgh, on April 17, 2019.
Sean Orman, 30, has denied all 15 charges against him, including murder, attempted murder, firearms and drugs offences, at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Giving evidence via video link, witness Dean White today told jurors how Orman had boasted he was due to murder Mr Welsh, who ran a boxing gym, for £10,000.
This conversation, held with a man named Peem at Mr White s brother s home in Edinburgh, prompted the witness to alert Police Scotland to the potential danger.
From its opening shot,
Trainspotting is a movie in motion. As sneakers hit the sidewalk of Princes Street in Edinburgh, Scotland, we hear the raucous drumbeat of Iggy Pop s 1977 barnstormer Lust For Life. Renton played by Ewan McGregor and Spud by Ewen Bremner sprint away from two security guards, their shoplifting spoils flying out of their pockets. Choose life, Renton s narration begins, introducing an instantly classic monologue about the emptiness of middle-class aspirations. The action then zips to a soccer match that introduces Renton s ragtag mates: Spud, Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Begbie (Robert Carlyle) and Tommy (Kevin McKidd). The scene is all propulsion and attitude, with Iggy Pop dropping the match on the trail of fuel. In just 60 exhilarating seconds,
No high octane adventure could have prepared Starsky & Hutch star David Soul for his latest assignment.
His documentary, Cuban Soul, records the discovery of Ernest Hemingway s long lost 1955 convertible Chrysler New Yorker, found in a garage in Cuba eight years ago, and its subsequent restoration.
Yet what sounds a gentle project has exacted a massive cost and threatened him with financial ruin and even imprisonment. Making Cuban Soul has been my personal battle and has wreaked havoc with my health, both mentally and physically, Soul, now 77, tells me from his home in North London.
Though he retained his U.S. citizenship when, in 2004, he became a dual national by becoming a British citizen, Soul, who played Hutch in the 1970s TV show, assumed he could help bring car parts into Cuba without being accused of breaking American sanctions.
Rather than the customary red carpet schmooze fest on Leicester Square, Creation Stories premiered at the virtual Glasgow Film Festival. âThe best thing about the pandemic is that we didnât have a film premiere,â says its subject, former Creation Records boss Alan McGee.
âIt wouldâve been the bane of my life. The producer of the movie going, Have you spoken to the Gallagher brothers? Did you talk to Bobby Gillespie? Have you spoken to Kevin Shields? Did you speak to Tony Blair? Have you spoken to the Pope?â Iâm glad I didnât have to do any of that f ing nonsense.â