A workman was beaten to unconsciousness after leaving a tool needed for a repair job.
Shocking footage of the attack in Edinburgh shows an employee of a building firm run by businessman David Love lying motionless on the ground while being repeatedly punched by a thug. It is understood the incident was a result of the worker falling to bring a gas analyser used in boiler exhausts.
Moments before he fell unconscious, the victim was repeatedly asked "where's the analyser?" and instructed to fetch it. Cops who attended the scene said they were given "no information" by people they traced with "no complaint" being received.
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Business owner Love is seen at the beginning of the film, he said last night that the injured man was a gas engineer he'd employed for two weeks. The 41-year-old said the victim was attacked by a worker from a different company.
After the incident which took place at around 2pm on March 4, the victim was apparently taken home where he handed over the gas analyser before being sacked. The attacker's face is blocked out in the video while the voices are changed via software in order to stop him from being identified.
Love has built up a reputation for carrying out unconventional and ruthless business practices. On one occasion he sent a video of a masked man brandishing an AK-47 assault rifle to a customer with an unpaid bill.
Formerly a boxer, the businessman set up a debt collection service where he would visit homes wearing a stab proof vest and demand cash. On another occasion he dumped a mum-of-nine's belongings in a garden during an eviction.
The video of the incident begins with men jumping out of a vehicle in West Pilton Loan where a David Love property van is parked. A man can be heard asking: "Is the analyser there?" with Love 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 is then seen backing up and putting his hand towards his face in order to defend himself from a punch.
Once the punch connects, the victim ends up splayed over the bonnet of a 4x4 where he is then grabbed form behind and thrown on to a driveway. The victim is kicked and then receives multiple blows to his head. The attacker also punches him twice more in the stomach.
Love told the Record : "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”.
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