Boy, 13, appears in court charged with teenager murder

A grassroots football club has paid tribute to a teenage former player, as a boy appeared in court charged with his murder.

Kory McCrimmon, 16, died on Sunday afternoon at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow after being found seriously injured in the city on Friday.

A 13-year-old boy appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court charged with murder, and entered no plea.

Easterhouse Football Academy called the death “unthinkable” and said it was a “senseless incident.”

Emergency services were called to Greenfield Park in Eskbank Street at about 20:15 on Friday in relation to a disturbance, where the teenager was found injured.

Court papers state that the boy allegedly stabbed Kory on the body with a knife or a similar bladed article.

Kory had played for Easterhouse Football Academy’s 2008 age group until a few months ago.

In an online statement a spokesman for the team said: “Football brings people together and forms team mates and friends for life happy times win lose or draw but on days like today when we lose a young person in a senseless incident [it] just is unthinkable and hard for Kory’s coaches and team mates so can’t imagine what Kory’s family are going through.”

The club also called for greater education to try and present violence among teenagers.