An Edinburgh prisoner who murdered a lawyer and set his body on fire almost 30 years ago has been denied parole over concerns he remains a danger to the public.
Dean Ryan, 45, and brother Steven bound Marshall Stormonth’s wrists and ankles at his Glasgow home in 1993 before setting the property ablaze with the procurator fiscal still inside.
Ryan, who was 17 at the time of the violent crime, had a previous parole reques t refused 15 months ago and then tried to get that decision overturned at the Court of Session in Edinburgh last September by asking for a judicial review, according to the Sunday Mail.
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Judge Lord Summers backed the Parole Board of Scotland decision to keep him behind bars.
Ryan appealed that verdict at the same venue, but three more judges, Lord Turnbull, Lord Houseman and Lady Dorrian, rejected his appeal due to fears he remains a “high level of risk”.
He will now continue to serve his life sentence at HMP Saughton in the capital despite becoming eligible for parole in 2014.
The brothers abducted Mr Stormonth using a replica gun and then forced to drive them to his flat in the North Kelvinside area of Glasgow.
There, they tied his hands and feet up after striking him on the head, placed ligatures round his neck and set the flat on fire.
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In January 2014 Steven Ryan was freed on parole but later that year he stabbed stranger Gordon Murphy with scissors in Govanhill.
He was convicted of the killing and given a second life sentence.
Last year Marshall’s cousin Aileen Caskie said: “Dean Ryan and his brother will always be a serious danger to the public.”
