A bus driver has been found guilty of causing the death of a Rangers fan on his way to a match.

Callum Phillips' bus crashed at Crossroads Roundabout, near Kilmarnock, killing 39-year-old Ryan Baird.

He and 36 fellow members of the Nith Valley Rangers supporters' club were travelling from Dumfries to Glasgow for a home match against Partick Thistle.

Mr Baird, from Sanquhar, Dumfries-shire, died at the scene from injures to his chest and abdomen.

Phillips, 49, from Dalbeattie, had denied causing death by dangerous driving on October 1, 2016, and claimed in evidence that the bus' brakes had failed.

But he was found guilty after three hours of deliberations on Thursday following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.

Jurors heard Phillips' driving described as "fast and erratic" as he approached the roundabout.

One passenger, Heather Geddes, 25, who was on the bus as a birthday treat, described Phillips as' "flying down the road with his foot to the floor."

Mr Baird died trapped in the wreckage while three other men were seriously injured.

At the High Court in Glasgow on Thursday, Philips showed no emotion as the guilty verdict was read out.

Judge Lady Stacey ordered background reports and continued his bail, but told Phillips: "Do not get your hopes up about the sentence."

She deferred sentence until next month at the High Court in Glasgow.

Prosecutor Richard Goddard told the court that Phillips has previous convictions including one in 2015 for speeding for which he was fined £200 and given penalty points. He also has a conviction from 2005 for not wearing a seat belt.

The court heard that after the fatal crash he was off work for two months and left Brownriggs, the company he had been working for.

Phillips then got another job as driving when asked what it involved he replied: "Coach driving, just schools."

He claimed that the brakes on the Iveco bus were not working. But experts from the DVSA and from an Iveco dealership, who examined the brakes, found no defects.

Phillips told police : "I reckon I'm doing 50 at that roundabout. I tried to press the brakes.

"I pressed the brakes and it didn't work.

"No brakes. It was not slowing me down like it should have."

Phillips also disputed the tachograph evidence which showed he drove for considerable periods of the hour-long drive from Thornhill, Dumfries-shire, at 63mph and at one point at 73mph. The speed limit for buses on the A76 is 50mph.

He claimed that his driving had been 'normal' and claimed that no one had ever complained about his driving.

He told the officers: "I believed the maximum speed on that bus was 62mph. I don't think I was doing 73mph."

The jury has heard that the speed limit on that road for buses is 50mph.

Phillips admitted in evidence that he never once looked at his speedometer during the journey and claimed that "everyone drives at 10mph above the speed limit."

Nursery nurse Caitlin Hamilton, 23, from Sanquhar, who was travelling behind the bus from Mauchline onwards, said: "I remember saying to my mum 'that bus is going far too fast. I can't catch up.'

"At that point I was doing 60 to 63 mph. I just thought to myself it was not going to make it round that roundabout. It was just going far too fast."

Passengers on the bus told the court that Phillips driving was "erratic and fast" and said he drove even faster after having to double back at Cumnock to pick up two people.