Gang Attack in Edinburgh: Joshua Stewart Sentenced

It's April 2nd, Edinburgh news today starts, now AI-powered and ready.

I'm Cory with the story.

A 21-year-old man from Bannockburn named Joshua Stewart just got hit with 3 years and 8 months

in prison for driving the getaway car.

In her brutal machete attack in Edinburgh, last May 22nd, in 2025,

he chauffeur to crew straight to Pit Cairn Grove to jump David Mcmillan leaving the guy with

headcuts, and a fractured skull as part of some nasty gangbief.

This hit went down in Mcmillan's family home, where three balaclava-wearing attackers

piled out of Stewart's land rover discovery, swinging machetes.

They bashed Mcmillan before jumping back in and peeling out, but a security guard at the house

stepped up and helped him survive the chaos.

The high-court in Glasgow heard how Mcmillan tied to a drug dealer named Mark Richardson

wouldn't even give police a statement.

Judge Lady Drummond called the whole thing planned,

serious and straight-up violent, while Stewart's lawyer argued he got roped in over a drug debt

and had no clue it would get that wild.

Stewart copped a guilty plea to teaming up to seriously injure and scar Mcmillan

to the danger of his life.

He's got a prior violence rap too.

Cobbs nabbed him through Operation Portilage, a big sweep that's locked up over 60 folks amid

shootings, assaults, and fire bombings ripping through.

Scotland's central belt from Glasgow to Edinburgh.

With Stewart showing real remorse and his plea knocking the sentence down from five and a half

years, this case shines a light on how these feuds pull.

And young guys way over their heads and the cops keep pushing to shut it all down.