Mum and two adult children jailed for murder of man in Blackburn
Paul Scott was killed last June
Last updated 20th Mar 2026
A mother and her two adult children who murdered a man in Blackburn have been jailed for life.
Last June, police received a report from the ambulance service that Paul Scott was unresponsive at his address on Peridot Close.
Despite the best efforts of the emergency services, he was sadly pronounced dead at the scene.
The person who made that initial call was 22-year-old Amie Clegg, a distant relative of Paul’s who had just filmed her brother 25-year-old Liam Donlin murdering Paul with the intention of uploading it to Snapchat.
She lied about her, and her brother’s names and told the ambulance service she didn’t know the address she was at and that she didn’t know how Paul suffered his injuries. Then, as the call handler talked them through CPR, she told them that Paul was already dead and that she didn’t know what the call handler wanted her to do for him.
The siblings, along with their mother 44-year-old Joanne Maxwell planned to attack Paul, and another man, as revenge, after Maxwell was involved in an altercation in September 2024. Paul had been present at the time of the altercation, but his only involvement was attempting to split it up.
Arming themselves with knives, they arrived at Paul’s home shortly after 3am where Clegg lured him to the front door. She then stepped back and began filming as Paul answered the door and was stabbed by Donlin.
Prior to the murder, Clegg and Maxwell had sent messages to associates threatening Paul and those involved in the altercation and on the journey to Paul’s house, Donlin, who was only released from prison shortly before the murder sent voice messages telling associates that he was going to attack someone with a knife.
Following a 13-day trial at Preston Crown Court, a jury found all three guilty of murder. Maxwell and Clegg were also found guilty of possession of a bladed article.