By Fahad Tariq
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It’s been a busy week for courts in and around Glasgow, with criminals appearing in the dock including a killer gang, drunk man and cruel dog owner.
We’ve covered cases from the High Court, Glasgow Sheriff Court and Hamilton Sheriff Court. Some have been jailed while others are still waiting to be sentenced for their crimes.
Below, we have rounded up all of this week’s cases published on GlasgowLive.
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Glasgow High Court
Robert Park, Raymond Platt, Craig Colquhoun and Joseph McCulloch
A gang who murdered Glasgow man Tony Ferns after a so-called feud have been jailed for a total of 81 years.
Robert Park, 69, Raymond Platt, 56, Craig Colquhoun, 39, and Joseph McCulloch, 50, were on Wednesday (September 10) convicted of a plot to fatally attack Tony on April 18 2019.
The 33-year-old was stabbed in the heart as he sat in his car near his mother’s home in Thornliebank, East Renfrewshire. Jurors heard how Tony had long blamed Park – known as Rab – for his disabled brother Mark being injured in a road accident seven years earlier.
There were a number of clashes between the pair before Tony tried call a “truce”. But, instead, window cleaner Park teamed up with convicted killer Platt, his friend McCulloch and Colquhoun to kill the well-liked tiler.
Read the full story here.
Read more: CCTV shows moment callous killer targeted Tony Ferns in front of his partner
Glasgow Sheriff Court
Logan Smith
A cruel dog owner dumped his badly hurt dog in the street after it swallowed drugs in his home.
Logan Smith had an XL Bully called Juno, who suffered a string of injuries including a fractured skull. The dog – which the convicted thug was already looking to offload – was eventually discovered wrapped in a blood-stained sheet close to Smith’s home in Glasgow’s Springburn having been left to die.
A sheriff this week heard the 23-year-old’s “lack of education” led to him abandoning Juno when he needed urgent help. He pled guilty to a charge of causing the dog unnecessary suffering.
Smith was spared a jail term, but banned from keeping animals for the next 10 years.
Read the full story here.
Ryan Gallacher
A drunk man threatened a member of staff at a primary school after he was asked to leave. Ryan Gallacher, 26, made the remark at the school in the north west of Glasgow on May 21 2025.
Glasgow Sheriff Court heard that a member of staff was made aware of Gallacher who had entered the school’s courtyard. He was asked by the staff member why he had attended and he stated he was there to collect two children.
Prosecutor Craig Morrison said: “The staff member asked if he had been drinking as he smelled of alcohol. He stated that he wasn’t drinking but had a bottle in his pocket.
“The staff member did not believe him and told him that the children would not be released to him due to his state of intoxication.”
Sentence was deferred for six months on this matter for Gallacher to be of good behaviour.
Read the full story here.
Hamilton Sheriff Court
Robert McCallum
A freed rapist is back behind bars after committing a sex act in front of a teenage girl on a bus in Wishaw.
Robert McCallum was “staring intently” at the 15-year-old as he exposed himself. She was “crying and upset” when she reported what happened to her shocked mother, Hamilton Sheriff Court heard.
McCallum, 67, admitted engaging in sexual activity in the girl’s presence during a bus journey on December 6. Sheriff Liam Murphy expressed “great concern” at his criminal record which includes a 10-year sentence for rape in 2006. He was also convicted at Airdrie Sheriff Court last year of a sexual offence involving a teenage girl and given another prison sentence.
Read the full story here.
Athen Davis
A Lanarkshire man who was the target of a blackmail plot forked out £4,500 to stop an explicit photo being sent to his neighbours, the police and his work.
The man received 14 handwritten notes demanding money over a three-week period.
Athen Davis, 23, of Fauldhouse, appeared at Hamilton Sheriff Court this week. He admitted that, while acting with an accomplice, he extorted the cash after repeated visits to the victim’s home in Harthill in 2023.
The court heard the man eventually told Davis he couldn’t pay any more and reported the matter to the police.
Read the full story here.
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