Robert Pickett (Jail 10 years , 4 months , 28 days left)

Brian Ferguson, Andrew Gallacher, Robert Pickett, Andrew Sinclair, John Hardie and Peter Bain were convicted of conspiracy to murder.

They targetted five men in a rival gang between June 2016 and September 2017 at locations in Glasgow, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire and Manchester.

The first man that they targetted was in Robroyston on 8 December 2016. They rammed his car and when he got out they chased him into a house and when they reached him they struck him over the head with a hatchet or a machete.

A month later another man was attacked in Cranhill, Glasgow. He had been going to his mother's door when he was attacked from behind and received a fractured skull. The man said, 'I kind of fell, there were three or four guys with masks on. They were round about me. It was all a blur. The only thing I was paying attention to was getting to my feet and away. I was in shock, I panicked'.

The third man was attacked after he went to an Italian takeaway in Maryhill on 7 March 2017. He had been getting back into his Volkswagen Golf car when he was attacked. He said, 'I dropped the food and covered my head to try and protect myself. I was just getting hit. I think it was a machete. It all happened so fast'.

The fourth man was attacked in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire on 28 April 2017 in the street outside the home he shared with his mother. He was attacked with a sword and a hammer and was left with brain-damaged. He told the police that he had no enemies but said that his brother was a criminal and had once been charged with shooting a man associated with the man convicted of conspiracy to murder.

The fifth man was chased in his Skoda Octavia car from Milton to the off-ramp of the M8 and then attacked with a cleaver and a hammer on 18 May 2017.

The police later identified Brian Ferguson, Andrew Gallacher, Robert Pickett, Andrew Sinclair, John Hardie and Peter Bain as suspects and when they raided their homes, they found samurai swords, machetes, false number plates, firearms and baseball bats. It was noted that although they found baseball bats, they never found any baseballs.

At the trial the prosecution said that the attacks were part of a coordinated vendetta.

Robert Pickett had earlier been convicted of the attempted murder of Mark Rennie. He tried to shoot him on his doorstep gun the gun didn't fire. Mark Rennie was later shot in the back by Stewart Gillespie who was sentenced to 25 years but was later himself murdered.