A MURDER trial heard how a woman tried to comfort a dying Port Glasgow man after he’d been stabbed in a house in the town.

Stephanie Nelson said she told fatally wounded Terence McGeown: “It is going to be alright. You will get through this.”

But Mr McGeown, 38, never recovered and later died after being rushed to hospital.

The evidence emerged at the trial of accused Gary McKenna, 25, at the High Court in Glasgow.

McKenna denies murdering Mr McGeown at the house on the Port’s Broadstone Avenue on July 8 last year.

Miss Nelson said she had been at the house with friends when Mr McGeown allowed a number of other people entry, including McKenna.

The trial was told how a woman later made a remark about Mr McGeown and Miss Nelson ended up fighting with her.

McKenna came out of a bedroom where he had apparently been sleeping.

Miss Nelson said she spotted McKenna with a knife, adding that it had a ‘rainbow’ coloured blade.

She told the court: “He was swinging it towards Terry — swinging it back and forward.”

Miss Nelson said that shortly thereafter she saw blood ‘dripping’ from Mr McGeown.

McKenna is said to have fled the property as Miss Nelson initially gave chase.

She was then told Mr McGeown had collapsed and was ‘struggling to breathe’.

Miss Nelson recalled: “He was lying on the living room floor. He would not respond to his name.”

Prosecutor Duncan McPhie asked: “What did you say to him?”

Miss Nelson replied: “I was trying to reassure him — that it was going to be alright and we will get through this.”

She dialled 999 and an ambulance crew took Mr McGeown away for emergency treatment.

Asked if she’d seen McKenna strike Mr McGeown, Miss Nelson said: “Not that I can remember. It happened all so fast.”

Advocate depute Mr McPhie also asked what she would say if it was suggested Mr McGeown had struck McKenna with a bottle.

Miss Nelson responded: “I never saw anything like that.”
The trial, before Lord Matthews, continues.