The jury in the Kriss Donald murder trial has been told that his death was an “appalling crime of inhumanity against a defenceless boy”.

The 15-year-old schoolboy was allegedly abducted from Pollokshields in Glasgow, stabbed and set on fire in 2004.

Summing up, advocate depute Mark Stewart said the accused had condemned themselves “from their own mouths”.

Mohammed Faisal Mushtaq, 27, Zeeshan Shahid, 28, and Imran Shahid, 29, deny racially aggravated murder.

During more than four weeks of evidence at the High Court in Edinburgh, the trial has heard prosecution claims that Kriss, 15, was snatched from the street in Pollokshields, driven to Dundee and back in a silver Mercedes before being stabbed, doused with petrol and set on file.

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