Jordan Honeyman tortured Alan Lawson before dumping him back at his home in Saltcoats with horrendous injuries.
A killer who tortured his victim and held him hostage roamed the streets for two weeks before he was arrested.
Jordan Honeyman filmed himself inflicting horror injuries on Alan Lawson, 36, at the thug’s home in Largs, Ayrshire in February 2024.
Honeyman dumped Alan severely injured back at his house in Saltcoats on February 4 but he sadly died in hospital two days later.
The twisted killer then went on the run and was even captured on CCTV in Ardrossan as police launched a manhunt.
The maniac shared footage on Snapchat, which showed Alan’s severely wounded body on the floor of a blood-splattered room.
Honeyman also posted a topless picture of himself, with his naked torso smeared in his victim’s blood.
Blood stained clothes and bedsheets were also seen scattered across a wooden floor next to the wounded victim.
Rumours circulated in the area about the killer moving around Largs and Saltcoats and staying with pals as he evaded cops.
Terrified local residents demanded that the police issued a description of the killer and complained of being left in the dark about what, or who, to look out for.
One told the Record: “There is a killer on the loose but the police haven’t released any information on a description.
‘We have no idea what the person they are hunting might look like. If we did and one of us saw him in the towns, we could contact the police.
“But right now, I could pass him in the street and not even know.”
One parent told the Record that children living in the area had been banned from playing outdoors while he remained at large.
They said: “There were rumours that he is was hiding out locally, but nobody has any idea what he might look like.
“My kids haven’t been allowed out to play after school since the murder. A number of other parents feel the same way. I’ll be keeping them at home until the police have caught the person responsible.”
Sources added that the man had been on a week-long “crack and booze” bender before he carried out his frenzied attack.
One said: “He had been on a bender for a week – drinking and smoking crack.
“He lost it and launched into the most vicious, horrendous attack on poor Alan. He said he had him chained up and had attacked him repeatedly over two or three days. He said he split his skull open and slashed him.
“When the booze and drugs wore off he came to his senses and panicked, so he took Alan back to his house and just dumped him there, leaving him for dead.”
Murder cops were seen stationed outside Alan’s home on New England Road in Saltcoats and officers raided a flat in Ardrossan as they searched for the killer.
Police Scotland announced they had finally arrested and charged Honeyman on February 20, two weeks after he dumped Alan was found with horrendous injuries by his mum.
Honeyman was sentenced to life at the High Court in Glasgow this week after a trial.
It emerged in court he had previously been jailed for almost three years for an attack on Mr Lawson in 2022.
Prosecutors said Mr Lawson was repeatedly punched, kicked, struck with a sharp weapon and had his feet scalded.
Honeyman also jumped on the man from a set of stairs, stripped him, applied superglue to his many wounds having forced him into the shower.
The court heard how afterwards Honeyman got help from two other men to haul Mr Lawson out of the bloodbath into a van and transport him back to his home in Saltcoats.
The killer also ripped up carpets and rugs as well as bagged other incriminating items in a clean-up operation lasting hours at his home.
Alan was said to have suffered at least 54 injuries. The brutal attack had caused a blood clot resulting in a massive and fatal stroke.
Honeyman had accepted causing the death, but had denied murder.
Sentencing, Lord Arthurson told the killer: “This crime was exceptionally callous.
“The violence was designed to cause him particular pain and were nothing less than acts of torture.
“The screenshots shown in court taken from the video in the house of you and your victim made clear that you revelled in what you had done.
“The image of you half naked and smeared in the victim’s blood was resonant of a scene from sort of dystopian work of fiction.”
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