Police piece together equestrian-centre shooting

Police are piecing together the circumstances roughly a double-fatality at a Scottish equestrian centre.

The possessor of Meadowhead House Farm together with Stables, Peter Thompson, 59, was establish dead at the property. His son, John, 36, an electrician, had raised the alert later fleeing the scene past times car on Tuesday morn later beingness shot inward the legs.

He drove to a pub nigh iii kilometres away, earlier beingness taken past times ambulance to Hairmyres Hospital inward East Kilbride.

Police converged on the farm, at Auldhouse, close East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, where they establish the trunk of Peter Thompson.

Nearby, inward a vehicle, was the trunk of a 53-year-old man.

Police stressed they were non looking for anyone else inward connector amongst the incident. Local media reports say the human being inward the car was the suspected gunman.

Superintendent Elaine Ferguson said: “We are non looking for anybody else inward relation to this incident together with all the firearms are contained to that farm together with at that spot is no danger to the public.”

Ferguson said police describe would piece of employment toward finding out precisely what the circumstances were that led to the shooting.

Meadowhead Farm is an equestrian middle that offers riding lessons, livery together with treks.

Local media reports suggested Peter Thompson had been involved inward several run-ins amongst nearby residents over the piece of employment of landfill on his farm. The East Kilbride News reported that he was fined £10,000 final Apr for illegal dumping.

The trucks delivering the fill upward had been a origin of consternation to some nearby residents, it was reported.

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