{"id":661218,"date":"2025-12-29T23:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T23:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/661218\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T23:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T23:04:14","slug":"man-in-court-accused-of-glasgow-west-end-murder-on-christmas-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/661218\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in court accused of Glasgow west end &#8216;murder&#8217; on Christmas Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Felix Thrust, 36, has appeared in Glasgow Sheriff Court accused of murdering Dean Kennedy, 38, in the west end on December 25.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_JS391581442.jpg\" alt=\"Dean Kennedy\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Dean Kennedy(Image: Facebook)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A suspect has appeared in court today (Monday, December 29) accused of murdering a man on Christmas Day. Felix Thrust, 36, allegedly assaulted Dean Kennedy, 38, in Glasgow&#8217;s <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowlive.co.uk\/all-about\/west-end\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"west endLink opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">west end<\/a> on December 25, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Court papers state Thrust engaged in a fight with Mr Kennedy then repeatedly punched and kicked him to the head and body. It is alleged Thrust went on to repeatedly <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowlive.co.uk\/all-about\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"stabLink opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">stab<\/a> him on the head and body with a knife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">This is stated to have been to Mr Kennedy&#8217;s severe injury, danger of life and murder. Thrust faces a second charge of assaulting three unknown men to their severe injury between December 25 and December 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Thrust is claimed to have struck them on the head and body with a knife at locations in Glasgow unknown to the prosecutor. Thrust made no plea at a private hearing in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowlive.co.uk\/all-about\/glasgow-sheriff-court\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Glasgow Sheriff CourtLink opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Glasgow Sheriff Court<\/a> and was represented by his lawyer Greg Cunningham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">He was remanded in custody and pending further examination by Sheriff David Taylor. Thrust, who has no fixed abode, will appear at court again within the next eight days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">It was earlier reported that Mr Kennedy was found injured on Napiershall Street around 11.40pm. He was taken to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital by medics before he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A tribute from friends after his death said: \u201cRest easy my good friend taken from our streets but not our hearts. Gutted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Felix Thrust, 36, has appeared in Glasgow Sheriff Court accused of murdering Dean Kennedy, 38, in the west&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,188,918,21727,4884,712,16,15,27923],"class_list":{"0":"post-661218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-glasgow","11":"tag-glasgow-sheriff-court","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-west-end"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115805360218726078","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}