Man convicted of attacking brother at Glasgow flat leaving him with brain injury

A man has been convicted of assaulting his brother in Glasgow, leaving him in hospital for six months with a brain injury.

Alan Gunn, 60, was attacked in April last year after arguing with his brother Raymond, at his flat in Maryhill the day after their sister, Charlotte, died.

Their other sister Suzanne later told police that Raymond claimed he “swung his feet and hit Alan on the face.”

Blood matching Alan's DNA was found on Raymond's trainer, and bedding stashed away in a cupboard.

Alan also suffered a fractured eye socket and needed surgery for a bleed to the brain. He was in hospital then a rehab unit until October 2017, and has only gone back to work this year.

After a trial at the High Court in Glasgow Raymond Gunn, 54, was convicted of assaulting his brother to his severe injury and danger of his life at the flat on Wyndford Road, Glasgow.

He denied the charge and claimed Alan had fallen twice in the bathroom and hit his head off of the sink and toilet.

In evidence Alan told how he had “no recollection” of how he came by his injuries but told how he had to have brain surgery.

He told jurors he has a scar after they had to “open his head up” and said he has his left eye but “it's not working.”

Their sister Suzanne Gunn, 62, gave a statement to police although in evidence said she wasn't fully awake at the time and was heavily medicated.

Excerpts were read to the court, some of which she claimed she didn't say and other parts she said she couldn't remember saying, but accepted she would have told the police the truth.

She also stated, “Since Raymond has been staying with me he keeps breaking down saying he didn't mean to do that to my brother, 'I will never forgive myself'.”

Another part of the statement said, “Raymond told me he had been arguing with Alan regarding both their wives.”

“He kept saying he swung his foot, he's not used a weapon or punched him.”

In the statement Miss Gunn said Raymond claimed Alan said not to phone an ambulance, and that Raymond put him to bed after he, “had been collapsing”.

Injured Raymond phoned for an ambulance at 12.50am the following morning but the call was never finished.

The police tracked the phone to Alan's house and his wife, Sarah, phoned him and found out he was at his brother's house, and told him to come home.

PC Samantha Green noted Raymond said he noticed the injury to his brother in the morning.

Judge Sean Murphy QC deferred sentence until next month and continued Raymond Gunn's bail