A lookout for a crime boss who ordered a vicious attack on an ex-member has been jailed for four years.
Anthony Redpath, 42, kept watch on James Sheridan after he was freed from prison. Sheridan was later ambushed in an attack that eventually led him to have his leg amputated.
Redpath was this week sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow for his role after he admitted to a charge of conspiracy to assault Sheridan. The hearing was told Sheridan had been a member of the gang but ended up being jailed after being caught with cannabis and £104,000 of dirty cash.
Prosecutor John McElroy KC said Sheridan made it clear behind bars that he wanted out of the mob. But the gang boss blamed him for the loss of the drugs and cash.
Mr McElroy said: “An instruction was issued that he should be assaulted.” The court heard Redpath “did not know this”, had no previous knowledge of Sheridan although was aware he was to be attacked.
Redpath and an associate lay in wait as Sheridan was released early from his jail term at HMP Low Moss on May 16, 2023. He was tailed to a property in Coatbridge. Redpath eventually kept watch alone for several hours.
Mr McElroy said the leader of the crime clan, who instructed the attack, called Redpath four times in 30 minutes. The prosecutor said Redpath’s guilty plea was accepted because he was aware of an impending attack but was not there when it happened or know of the level of violence.
The gang boss and four members met in Bearsden, near Glasgow, before heading to Coatbridge. They booted their way through the front door in the early hours and found Sheridan in a bedroom with partner Samantha Cooke.
Both were attacked with machetes and swords before the gang fled the bloodbath. Sheridan had suffered injuries to his head, arms and legs and was nearly killed.
He lost two fingers and his right leg had to be amputated above the knee. Attempts to reattach two of Samantha’s fingers on her right hand were unsuccessful.
A clip emerged after the attack of a heavily bandaged Sheridan lying in his hospital bed. In it, he says to his attackers: “Take the fingers, take the leg but you will not take my life, you f***ing bunch of dafties.”
Tony Lenehan KC, defending, said Redpath, of Glasgow’s Knightswood, was not a member of the gang before the incident. Lord Arthurson cut the jail term imposed on him from five years to four because of his guilty plea. Ross Al-Gailani was jailed for 16 years last May for involvement in attacks including Sheridan’s.
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