As people across Scotland revelled in Andy Murray’s historic Wimbledon victory last summer, brutal Chris O’Shea turned Bridge Street into a bloodbath.

He butchered Craig McSporran to death and stabbed life-long pal Derek MacNeil so savagely he left him traumatised.

O’Shea, 25, claimed he was nowhere near the scene of the murder on July 8 last year, claiming he had actually been at his mum’s house, with his brothers, on the other side of town.

But the High Court in Paisley heard the thug was spotted carrying a huge knife out of his home in the town.

He chased after Craig and Derek and, after attacking the pair, he cycled back to his mum’s.

But his lies unravelled and a jury found him guilty of murdering Craig and attempting to murder Derek.

Reliving the night he saw his friend murdered, MacNeil explained that his fun evening drinking with a pal in The Heritage bar ended in tragedy.

The 32-year-old father of two, who was knifed in the back of the head and leg, said he saw O’Shea emerge from his Fulwood Avenue home armed with “a big bread knife.” And he said that he can’t stop thinking about the moments when he and his pal were knifed, saying the night has “ruined” his life and resulted in him having nightmares and needing medication to help him cope.

O’Shea’s brothers Lee, 24, and Daniel, 22, were on trial alongside him accused of lying to police to try and give Chris a false alibi for the murder.

In a statement to police on July 9 last year — the day after Craig was murdered — Lee said he had been with Chris and Daniel in their mother’s house on the night Craig was attacked, playing an assassins game on the PlayStation.

Lee told DC Paula Convery that it was just the three of them that were playing the computer in their mother’s Pentland Avenue home.

He said they had been with Chris from dinner time and that, at 1am, they left and made the cross-town trip to Chris’ home in Fulwood Avenue.

Lee told the officer that, after about an hour, Chris’ girlfriend Margaret Rooney — who is known to the boys as Maggie — drove them home.

As they left Chris’ home to make the journey back to Pentland Avenue, Lee said he saw two uniformed officers walking down the street, near to where Craig was murdered, towards the garage.

And he told DC Convery: “I never seen or heard any disturbance when I was at Chris’s house.” Lee, Daniel and Chris denied attempting to pervert the course of justice by giving false statements to police and telling Chris’ neighbours not to speak up about what they had witnessed that night.

The charge against Chris was dropped, while the jury found the charge against his brothers not proven.

Chris O’Shea will be sentenced for the murder and attempted murder at the High Court in Edinburgh next month.