Police ScotlandSix people have been found guilty of a series of suspected Gangaland attacks, including setting fire to jail of jail officials.
Michael Heips, John Murray, Lee Ridgway, Dell Bold, Demian Mulen and Ryan McGawn targeted several victims in and around Edinburgh at the end of 2022 and in the beginning of 2023.
One attack left a man “hanging” with his hand, while the other left the victim in deep care and coma.
He was found guilty of several crimes, with attempted murder, attempts to spoil the curriculum of justice after a test in the High Court in Wilful Fire-Regling and Glasgow.
Men will be sentenced next month.
The allegation was stated that it was a relationship with serious organized crime, but the increase was removed by the prosecutors at the end of the evidence.
Judge, Lord Mulholland, however, said that men were found guilty of “gangsterism out of control”.
Cavity
In December 2022, his first victim was attacked in Midlothian’s Bilston when a gang attacked his car and broke him with a blade weapons.
He told a 999 call that he had tried to “cut it”.
Another man was targeted on January 5, 2023 by a match-fielding attacker near his home in Pilton area of ​​Edinburgh.
He said that after pulling in a car, he tried to close the attacker and started beating him with weapons.
His hand in the attack was almost completely separated, after which he was taken to the hospital and spent 12 hours in surgery.
The man said that he felt that he was “dying at the door”.
Another person was targeted in “High Speed ​​Chase” between Edinburgh and Dalketh.
He was excluded from the road and his car penetrated into a wall. The man was left with a “large gap wound” when he was killed with Macches.
They also needed many operations, they have been left for life and are physically affected by the event.
On 7 January, 2023, Six cars related to employees in HMP Addiivell at West Lothian Late night on fire.
Later that month, one of the gang victims was ambushed by ambush by masked attackers in the Farnihil region of Edinburgh.
His injuries were so serious that he ended in deep care and coma.
‘Sinner’ crime
The court heard that all six people had criminal past.
They were caught thanks to CCTV and forensic evidence, as well as branding a handwritten note a potential witness “a grass”.
The 33 -year -old McGawn fled to Scotland in Argyll and Bute and via Campbaltown at Dublin.
He was extradited back to Scotland before going to Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and United Arab Emirates before going to Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and United Arab Emirates.
He was approved for the attempt to murder, but was found guilty with Heps, Redway and Mulen to join the Blaze in Edivel.
Heps, 34, was convicted of three allegations, including three murders.
The 32 -year -old Ridway was involved in three murders and was convicted of eight allegations.
The gamblers found that 33 -year -old, two of those attacks were included in two and 26 -year -old Mulene, one of them.
25 -year -old Murray was convicted of five allegations, including two murders.
Lord Mulholland said to him: “You have been convicted, for different degrees, for many serious allegations, which can only be described as out-of-control gangsterism.
“It was attacking many people with a match, the extent to which his hand was chopped.
“You traveled to HMP Addivell, where you set fire to the cars of six jail officers – a terrible crime against many people working with the execution of the court.
He said: “It was clearly intended to intimidate and send a message to those working in jail.”
DET SUPT PAUL Graeringer said the level of violence in the attacks was “completely unacceptable”.
He said: “Although all these were targeted attacks, people involved did not show any connection for the affected communities.
“These events could have very serious consequences, and I want to clarify that this behavior will not be tolerated.”
