
Gang Attack in Edinburgh: Joshua Stewart Sentenced
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21-year-old Joshua Stewart from Bannockburn sentenced to three years and eight months for driving the getaway car in a brutal machete attack in Edinburgh, leaving victim David McMillan with severe injuries. Stewart, with a prior violence record, pleaded guilty to seriously injuring McMillan, part of a gang feud. The attack was part of Operation Portaledge, a large-scale police operation targeting violence in Scotlands central belt. Stewart showed remorse, reducing his sentence from five and a half years. The case highlights the involvement of young individuals in violent gang disputes and the polices efforts to curb such incidents.
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Edinburgh News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! — Gang Attack in Edinburgh: Joshua Stewart Sentenced. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
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.
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