“They entered the property which was unlocked but found it empty. They saw bullet holes in the living room wall and kitchen door,” he said.<\/p>\n
Mr Keenan said the address was occupied by Patrick Beatson. Contact was made with the occupier and he attended a police station.<\/p>\n
He confirmed he was at home alone when the shooting occurred and his children were elsewhere at the time.<\/p>\n
Mr Keenan said: “He allowed the police to search his house, but would provide no further information.”<\/p>\n
Footage of the gun crime was shown to the court.<\/p>\n
It showed a white BMW car turning into the cul-de-sac before an individual emerged from the passenger side and ran towards the scene of the shooting. <\/p>\n
Loud bangs could be heard.<\/p>\n
The car was tracked on CCTV to Dalmeny, near South Queensferry, where it was found burnt out at a cycle path.<\/p>\n
Defence counsel Mark Stewart KC told the court Robertson understood he faced a significant custodial sentence.<\/p>\n
Lord Weir, told Robertson, who followed proceedings via a video link to prison: “The charges to which you have pleaded guilty and the agreed circumstances in which they arose raise matters of very real public concern.”<\/p>\n
Robertson has previous convictions for serious assault, possession of weapons and attempted murder. <\/p>\n
In 2007 he was jailed at the High Court for 10 years for shooting a former youth footballer in a murder bid.<\/p>\n
Robertson discharged a sawn off shotgun at Jamie Ewart outside the Clermiston Inn in Edinburgh and hit him on the arm.<\/p>\n
Det Ch Supt Dave Ferry, of Police Scotland, said: “While this was established as a targeted attack, it was a concerning incident for the local community.”<\/p>\n
He will be sentenced on 14 January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“They entered the property which was unlocked but found it empty. They saw bullet holes in the living…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-626425","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\/115701421707900465","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626425","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=626425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}