A dad died in his daughter’s arms after being pounced on by a violent duo who stabbed him in the heart.

Brian Boyle, 56, leapt in front of daughter Kayleigh, 23, when two armed men came at them with knives and hammers in July last year.

The pair left Brian’s flat in Glasgow’s Dennistoun district after hearing Paul McCann, 38, and Mark Moncrieff, 33, smashing up Kayleigh’s car and shouting in the street.

Glasgow’s High Court heard the father and daughter ‘barely got a chance’ to step out onto the street before McCann and Moncrieff launched the unprovoked attack.

‘He saved my life. If he had not jumped in front of me, it would have been me who would have been stabbed’ Kayleigh said.

The court heard the pair and a woman, Domenica Smith 22, had been looking for a man named Connor, believed to be Smith’s ex-boyfriend, before coming across the Boyles on Reidvale Street.

Smith was found not guilty of murder but was accused of ‘clawing’ at Kayleigh ‘like an animal’ when she tried to protect her dad.

Kayleigh  managed to race to Brian’s aid after he was hit with a hammer then struck with a lock back knife by Moncrieff.

The trio fled as a dying Brian begged his daughter to get an ambulance.

Kayleigh said: ‘He hit the deck. He tried to grab onto a fence, but he did not have the energy. He just collapsed.

‘I tried to stop the bleeding and tried to save him. No one was able to save him.

‘He was an excellent dad and would do anything to defend me.’

McCann and Moncrieff have been jailed for a total of 38 years for murdering Brian.

Moncrieff, who was sentenced to 18 years for stabbing Brian in the heart, claimed he had not meant to kill him.

The pair showed no remorse as they were lead to the cells, with Moncrieff appearing to taunt Brian’s emotional family in court.

A judge said he had ‘no idea’ why Brian had to die, branding the murder as ‘mindless violence’.

It emerged the pair already had  48 convictions between them.

McCann had 36 convictions including a five and a half year jail-term for assault and robbery.

Moncrieff’s crime sheet ran to 12 convictions with an attempted murder in 2004.

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