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Cheryl McEvoy

Gang thug filmed buying petrol bomb ingredients before rival's family home torched

Chilling CCTV footage shows a man buying petrol bomb ingredients shortly before a flat was torched in the early hours of the morning.

The video was released by the Crown Office of Drew Darling at a BP garage after they helped convict six men of a terrifying firebomb campaign against relatives of their rivals.

Robert Warnock and associates Kieran McAnally, Brendan O'Donnell, Drew Darling, Cain Carr, and Craig McFarlane were jailed yesterday for a total of 63 years at Glasgow High Court yesterday for their part in the attacks on family members of two men they believed targeted Warnock's brother in 2019.

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The footage shows Darling filling a fuel container and purchasing three glass Irn-bru bottles from the BP garage on Inverkip Road, Greenock ahead of the first petrol bombing in the town's Union Street in the early hours of July 13, 2020.

A man called George Miller was recruited to target the same property on September 14, but died after setting himself on fire while attempting to ignite petrol that he had poured on the door and through the letterbox.

The third and final attack was at a flat in Cumberland Road on September 19.

Warnock had previously pled guilty to a conspiracy to murder charge after organising the three fire attacks

Darling and O'Donnell pled guilty to attempted murder relating to involvement in the Union Street attack.

McAnally pled guilty to attempted murder over the petrol bombing at Cumberland Street.

Carr and McFarlane were also found guilty of conspiracy to murder.

Speaking after sentence was handed down by Lord Mulholland, David Green, Procurator Fiscal for Homicide and Major Crime, said: "Robert Warnock was the ringleader of a revenge driven plot to murder two men and endanger the lives of their family and friends.

"His associates were either directly involved in carrying out these cowardly attacks or in arranging or recruiting others to do so.

"Our prosecutors will continue to do our utmost to prosecute those who carry out acts of violence against others and keep the communities we serve safe."

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