Killer caged after Ayr pub row
A CONVICTED murderer armed himself with a knife after a pub row – just months after being released from prison for stabbing his girlfriend to death.
Killer John Greenwood, 50, tooled himself up with the lethal weapon and asked a cabbie to take him back to the Ayr bar where he’d earlier been involved in a row.
But thanks to the actions of the brave driver, who alerted police, he is now back behind bars.
Greenwood, who lives in Coylton, pleaded guilty to being in possession of an offensive weapon at the Old Toll lay-by on the A70 Ayr to Coylton road on May 1 this year.
Cops lifted him from the back of the taxi.
His latest crime came four months after being released from jail for murdering his girlfriend in 1994.
After his release from prison in January, he settled in the South Ayrshire village.
However, Ayr Sheriff Court heard that vicious Greenwood was involved in a dispute at a pub.
He headed home in a taxi and asked the driver to wait outside.
Greenwood then returned to the car armed with a knife and instructed the driver to take him back to the pub.
But cops stopped the taxi and arrested the murderer before he reached his destination.
He was jailed for 32 months after a Sheriff heard details of the incident.
This latest conviction will add to Greenwood’s horrifying record, which includes the murder of mum-of-one Carol Moore.
Greenwood stabbed the barmaid to death after an argument in August 1994 while high on a cocktail of drink and drugs.
He beat her up in her Southport home before attempting to strangle her and stabbing her in the throat with a kitchen knife.
After the bloody murder he phoned his parents in Scotland to tell them what he had done.
He told Liverpool Crown Court that he had no recollection of the events but said that he must have “freaked out” after 35-year-old Ms Moore told him she was seeing someone else.
He denied murder but was unanimously convicted by the jury and sentenced to life in prison.
Greenwood was released after 12 and a half years and moved to Coylton.
He also had previous convictions for assault occasioning actual bodily harm (1989) and inflicting grievous bodily harm (1990).
The judge at his murder trial also noted that Greenwood had been violent in previous relationships.
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