Hitman Threatens Prison Guard, Gets More Jail Time

0:00It's April 23rd. I'm Corey with The Story. This is Edinburgh News Today, driven by AI. Grant Hunter, the 34-year-old hitman who gunned down Edinburgh against her Mark Webley, just admitted threatening to kill a prison guard. He pled guilty at Peterhead Sheriff Court on March 23rd to the threat made last August at HNP Grampian while on remand for the murder. That's shooting went down outside a pub on New Year's Eve 2023. Hunter pulled up in a stolen red Hyundai Tucson, fired bullets at Webley, who was wearing a stab vest, and also tried to take out Webley's pal Stewart, Pearson. For the murder and attempt, Hunter got hit with a 26-year sentence back in December at Glasgow High Court. Webley had his own rep, cleared of two attempted murders earlier in 2023. Days before the hit, he posted videos taunting rivals, daring them to show up at the pub, calling them out for lacking guts. Meanwhile, Hunter's ex-girlfriend Emma McVeigh, 27,

1:01drew four years and six months for trying to destroy evidence. Gary Robertson, 22, got six years and six months for perverting justice in the case. Sheriff Allen Sinclair tacked on three more months to Hunter's time, underscoring zero tolerance for prison threats amid this whole underworld saga. Still rippling through Scotland streets.