A stolen car driver has been jailed for nine years after trying to murder four men on a garage forecourt.
Charlie Tunstall repeatedly reversed a VW Golf GTI at mechanics after learning that cash payments for fuel were not accepted.
The 25-year-old struck one victim with the vehicle at the Perthshire premises. A judge told Tunstall at the High Court in Edinburgh : “You have been convicted of the attempted murder of four people.
“One of those persons was seriously injured and the injuries have had a long-lasting effect on him.”
Lord Mulholland said: “You used the vehicle as a weapon. Your conduct that day was despicable.”
The judge said he would begin the sentence for the murder bid at the expiry of an 81-month term he is serving, imposed in 2019 for conspiracy to rob in England.
Tunstall, from London, had denied attempting to murder Ewan Burt, Robert and Owen McMahon and Robert MacDonald on January 14 in 2019 at Bob’s Mechanical Repairs, at Perth Road, Birnam, but was convicted after a trial earlier this year.
Ewan was struck by the car driven by Tunstall and had to be treated for head wounds.
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