James McAvoy’s jailed half-brother inherits fortune from pair’s father

The prison half-brother of Hollywood actor James McAvoy has vowed to go straight when he is free of jail after inheriting a fortune from their late father.  

Donald McAvoy, 34, is serving a sentence of 5 years and ten months for a spread of offences, which included a road-rage assault on a 57-year-old grandfather. 

He had been due for launch on March 13, 2025, however after admitting having unlawful razor blades and a bootleg cell phone SIM card in his cell at high-security Glenochil Prison, in Clackmannanshire, Scotland, he was jailed for an additional 15 months. 

The thug, from Drumchapel, Glasgow, has the identical father, James snr, as X-Men star James, 44 – though the pair have been introduced up individually. The half-brothers are thought to by no means have met one another.

McAvoy, who has a daughter, appeared at Falkirk Sheriff Court through video hyperlink final week for sentencing. His lawyer mentioned he had acquired a ‘sizeable legacy’ from his late father’s property. ‘Mr McAvoy’s father died while he is been in jail,’ defence solicitor Ian Sievwright mentioned.

Donald McAvoy (pictured in Celtic strip)  from Drumchapel, Glasgow, has vowed to show away from a lifetime of crime after inheriting a fortune from a father he shared with Hollywood actor James McAvoy 

X-Men star James McAvoy (pictured) is believed to have by no means met his half-brother 

‘He has inherited a sizeable amount of cash from his father’s property, and that will enable him the monetary assets to keep away from criminality when he’s ultimately launched.

‘He’s been a prisoner for a very long time, and he’s decided for his daughter’s sake that when he leaves jail he’ll lead a pro-social life-style and supply for her and totally take part in elevating her.’

McAvoy has greater than 40 earlier convictions for offences together with a string of violent crimes.

He was jailed in 2021 after he and an unknown confederate pounced on grandfather Mieczyslaw Bawor, 57, after the thug’s pal crashed into the sufferer’s works van in Barlanark, Glasgow.

The grandfather was repeatedly knifed and smacked with a baton by the attackers – however managed to get a photograph of McAvoy earlier than he fled.

Now the courtroom heard the razor blades, partially wrapped in plastic, have been present in September 2021 caught to his rest room door by a magnet.

Mr Sievwright mentioned the rationale McAvoy – whose daughter is nearly three – had solely admitted the crimes was as a result of – till not too long ago – he had thought the bladed merchandise recovered from his cell was a software he used for a passion.

The solicitor mentioned: ‘He was introduced from jail to attend trial in October and that was the primary alternative that each he and I had the chance of viewing the merchandise.

‘It wasn’t what he thought had been taken from his cell – he’d thought it was a distinct merchandise for which he had an affordable excuse defence, which he used for arts and crafts in his cell.

‘He’d thought it was a software that he used for making cleaning soap carvings.

Donald McAvoy pictured throughout a brutal street rage assault in Glasgow in March 2020

‘When it was dropped at courtroom and he found it wasn’t, he took a view. 

‘He accepts it was in his cell, it did not belong to him, it was put in his cell by anyone else. There was no nefarious purpose for him having it.’

He mentioned the case had already scuppered his probabilities of getting parole and he would now should serve his full time period.

Imposing the 15-month sentence, and ordering it to run consecutive to McAvoy’s current sentences, Sheriff Wyllie Robertson mentioned: ‘These are severe offences. Their gravity needs to be mirrored.’ 

Prisoners in Scottish jails are issued with cell phones with locked SIM playing cards, as a part of modifications launched through the Covid pandemic.

Outgoing calls made on the jail-issue gadgets are rationed, could be monitored, and will solely be attainable to numbers already included in current prisoner name lists. The telephones will not be textual content or Internet enabled, and may’t obtain incoming calls.

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