{"id":582438,"date":"2025-11-20T11:46:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/582438\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T11:46:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:46:15","slug":"man-jailed-after-hunting-for-hidden-gun-in-edinburgh-gang-feud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/582438\/","title":{"rendered":"Man jailed after hunting for hidden gun in Edinburgh gang feud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The High Court in Edinburgh heard how during police surveillance McDermid, of Edinburgh&#8217;s Magdalene area, was seen taking a taxi to Roseburn Street on 5 June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers watched him enter and exit a nearby shop repeatedly while scanning the street before walking to Roseburn Path.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The path is a disused railway line which has been converted to a popular walking and cycling route and is bound on either side by bushes and trees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The court heard that McDermid &#8220;disappeared from view&#8221; before emerging from bushes with his face covered and &#8220;holding a metal detector in his right hand&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The next time he came out of the bushes, he no longer had the metal detector and was seen speaking into a black iPhone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When he was detained by officers that afternoon, they found he was in possession of gloves, a balaclava and \u00a3320 in cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The High Court in Edinburgh heard how during police surveillance McDermid, of Edinburgh&#8217;s Magdalene area, was seen taking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-582438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115581864331383452","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}