An Edinburgh workman has been captured on camera as he was beaten unconscious in a sickening attack.
The footage shows the man being battered after a discussion about a misplaced tool needed for a repair job.
The Daily Record report that the sickening attack in Edinburgh was carried out on an employee of a building firm run by notorious businessman David Love.
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The victim was targeted in an assault which saw him lying motionless on the ground while still being punched by a thug.
Moments earlier, he was repeatedly asked, “Where’s the analyser?” and told to fetch it.
It’s understood the worker failed to bring in a gas analyser used in boiler exhausts.
Cops attended but said they were given “no information” by people they traced and “no complaint” was received.
Love is seen at the start of the film. Last night, he said the injured man was a gas engineer he’d employed for two weeks.
The 41-year-old said it was a worker from a different company who turned up at the scene and attacked the victim.
Following the beating, Love said the victim was taken home where he handed over the gas analyser before being sacked.
The attacker’s face is blocked out in the video and voices are disguised using software to prevent his identification.
Love has built up a reputation for having ruthless business practices, including sending a video of a masked man wielding an AK47 assault rifle to a customer with an unpaid bill.
The ex-boxer set up a debt collection where he visited homes in a stab proof vest to demand cash. He also dumped a mum-of-nine’s belongings in a garden during an eviction.
The new video was filmed about 2pm on March 4 and starts with men jumping out of a vehicle in West Pilton Loan where a David Love Property (DLP) van is parked.
A man is heard asking: “Is the analyser there?”
Love is seen looking in the back of his company van.
The camera focuses on the victim, a man in a hooded top, with voices demanding, “Where is it?” and, “Where’s the boy’s analyser?”. The victim backs away as he’s told: “No more f*****g, you dafty, where’s the analyser?” The man responds: “I’m getting it now.”
He is told: “Jump in the f*****g van – I’ll drive you through.”
The victim appears reluctant to get in and is told: “Get in the van and we’ll go and get the analyser now.”
He remonstrates with the other man and after receiving more abuse, the attacker tells him: “You think I’m joking? You think I’m joking?”
The victim backs up, putting up a hand towards his face to defend himself, as a clenched fist comes into shot.
A punch is thrown and the victim ends up splayed over the bonnet of a 4x4. He’s grabbed from behind and thrown on to a driveway.
The victim is kicked before receiving blows to the head, including five punches after he lands limp on the ground.
The attacker punches him twice more in the stomach.
Asked about the incident, Love told the Record the victim’s previous employers had turned up to remonstrate with him over other matters.
He said: “It wasn’t a DLP employee who carried out the assault. I don’t know who he was. The guy (who was assaulted) working for me was a new start. There had been an analyser missing.
“His previous employer showed up at the same time so there were people unknown to me there. I went into the house so I missed the assault.”
Love said the £600 analyser was in the victim’s home in Lanarkshire when he was driven there before he was “fired”.
In 2019, we obtained a video showing Love facing a mirror with a masked gunman wielding an AK47 before shouting: “I want my f*****g money.”
Love, who boasts of having a seven-figure property portfolio in Edinburgh, Fife, Aberdeen and Tenerife, said it was a “little joke” but the customer settled.
In a second video, Love was seen snipping live cables at a Midlothian restaurant after claiming they hadn’t been paid.
In 2018, we told how Love dumped Donna Newby’s things in a garden.
Love and Donna later appeared on ITV’s Judge Rinder where he won £1250 after Rinder sided with him.
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