Skye shooter jailed for life after gun-rampage murder of brother-in-law and attempt to kill three others

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A man has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 28 years behind bars after being found guilty of murdering his brother-in-law and attempting to kill three other people during a shotgun rampage on the Isle of Skye and the Scottish mainland.

Finlay MacDonald, 41, carried out the spree of violence on August 10, 2022.The attacks began that morning when the father-of-four repeatedly stabbed his wife Rowena at their home in Taskarvaig on the island’s Sleat peninsula after finding “flirty” text messages on her phone between her and her boss.

Giving evidence during the trial at the High Court in Edinburgh, Mrs MacDonald said the “frenzied” attack punctured both her lungs and left her “squelching blood” with every breath she took.After attacking his wife, MacDonald got into his car with a pump-action shotgun, a “couple of hundred” cartridges and a “machete-type” knife, and drove to his brother-in-law John MacKinnon’s house in the nearby village of TeangueHis sister Lyn-Anne MacKinnon, who was outside on the driveway, told the court she saw him with the gun as he walked into the house, and said she heard “bangs” as he shot Mr MacKinnon a number of times, leaving him with fatal injuries.

A GP who lived nearby attempted to save Mr MacKinnon but he died at the scene.The court heard MacDonald had borne a grudge against his brother-in-law since the pair had a violent falling out in 2013.