Every day on Criminal Record we will be bringing you a round-up of the biggest crime stories of the day.
If you love to read about crime in Scotland – this is the place to be every day.
Here’s what has been making the news across the country on Sunday.
Car torched as gang war rages on
A car has been torched at a garage linked to the Daniel crime clan amid a new wave of chaos linked to Scotland’s reignited gang-war.
Emergency services were called to Kelvinside Motor Company on Milton Road in Kirkintilloch after the vehicle was firebombed shortly before 11pm on Saturday, August 22.
Daniels kingpin Francis ‘Fraggle’ Green is listed a a former director of the garage at Kirkintilloch Industrial Estate, which has been now been targeted twice in the space of a week. It’s understood a group of thugs wielding machetes turned up at the garage in a previous attack on Tuesday.
A burnt-out hatchback car was seen outside the garage on Sunday morning. No one was injured as a result of the fire, which is being treated as wilful by police.
Read more: Car torched at Daniels-linked garage amid new wave of chaos linked to gang war
Care worker caught ‘having sex’
A care worker has been sacked after allegedly being caught having sex during an overnight shift at a vulnerable client’s home, the Sunday Mail understands.
A complaint has been lodged with care provider Keane Premier Support Services after the employee was allegedly spotted through a window at a client’s home in Cambuslang last month.
The staff worker is understood to have been on an overnight shift caring for a client.
The other person involved is understood not to have been an employee. Following the complaint, the carer was suspended and then sacked.
Read more: Care worker sacked after being caught ‘having sex’ during overnight shift
Cocaine kingpin snared by Encrochat bust
A gang member who gauded the name “Whiteradio” on Encrochat was jailed for his part in a massive cocaine trafficking operation.
Stuart George played a vital role in the crime which started during the first covid lockdown in 2020.
The then 40-year-old was held after a raid at a drugs factory in Duntocher, West Dunbartonshire.
He was jailed for more than five years after admitting being involved in serious and organised crime at the High Court in Glasgow in April 2023.
Read more: Cocaine kingpin “Whiteradio” snared by Encrochat as mob ran lockdown empire
Elaborate gift card rigging scam
Organised crime gangs are secretly rigging gift cards to “drain” thousands of pounds in hard-earned cash from Scots shoppers in a new high-tech scam.
Gift cards remain one of the most popular ways to give at Christmas, birthdays and anniversaries, with the UK gift card and voucher market worth around £8billion a year.
With thousands of Scots expected to buy gift cards in the run-up to Christmas, they are being urged to check them carefully and report anything suspicious to store staff.
Police Scotland have now warned that prepaid gift cards are being tampered with in a sophisticated online scam known as “gift card draining”.
Read more: Organised criminals targeting Scots shoppers in elaborate gift card rigging scam
Rise of gang boss Jamie Daniel
He was the boy from Glasgow’s tough Possilpark that rose to the top of the criminal tree from humble beginnings. Jamie Daniel has been described in the past as the head of Scotland’s richest crime family.
He has even been compared to Harold Shand, the fictional London crime boss in the British gangster epic The Long Good Friday played by the late Bob Hoskins. As a young man Daniel was said to be into shoplifting, loan-sharking, stealing car wheels and scrap metal.
One of his big earners in his early days was melting down aluminium beer barrels stolen from outside pubs. In 1983, at the age of 25, he was jailed for four years in England for heroin smuggling.
Undeterred Daniel was said to have gone on to built an international criminal empire stolen cars, firearms and major drug smuggling and forged links with gangs in London, Manchester and Liverpool.
Read more: Car torched at Daniels-linked garage amid new wave of chaos linked to gang war
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