Gangsters targeted mob boss Mark Richardson's brother and best mate during six-day gun and knife rampage
Gangsters targeted mob boss Mark Richardson's brothe r and best mate during a six-day gun and knife rampage in Edinburgh.
Dale Richardson, 35, and David Togher, 40, were left with serious injuries after they were ambushed on the capital's Walter Scott Avenue on June 28, 2023. Both were assaulted to their severe injury after assailants Jordan Demarco and Daryl Loftus, both 33, struck the pair's bodies with an unknown weapon.
Just days later, they attempted to target Togher again during a botched break in of a home in Gorebridge. Demarco and Loftus were convicted of a terrifying six-day weapon rampage across Edinburgh, which saw the involvement of firearms, machetes and a sledgehammer.
Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard how the pair reigned terror across the capital and surrounding areas between the dates of June 28 and July 4, 2023.
It heard how a home on Bobbies Road in Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, was broken into while Loftus was in the possession of a firearm or imitation gun, with the intent to cause the occupier fear.
At the same time, Loftus was also in possession of a sledgehammer while Demarco wielded a machete. A set of keys and a vehicle were stolen from the address.
The following day, the door of a home on Edinburgh's Niddrie Marischal Crescent was repeatedly struck as Demarco and Loftus attempted to gain entry.
Hours later, they repeatedly struck another door on Shanter Way, attempting to cut through it with a circular saw with the intention of assaulting the two occupants.
A woman was then threatened with a machete on Gilmerton Dykes Place after a brick was hurled through her window and door kicked down.
On July 4, Loftus brandished a knife at a man while threatening him on Edinburgh's Saltire Square.
The chaos is understood to have been sparked after an angle grinder and knife were brandished at a man on Granton Medway.
Loftus was jailed for more than seven years at the High Court in Edinburgh on April 4.
Demarco is due to be sentenced at the same court in August.
In 2016, cocaine kingpin Mark Richardson's best pal Togher was caged for nearly six years for a frenzied slashing on drugs baron Sean 'Lugs' McGovern.
Togher glided a knife across McGovern's body in front of horrified shoppers in Edinburgh city centre in a sinister revenge attack.
The violence took place moments before McGovern, now 41, was due to return to jail from home leave. He had been serving 17 years for a shooting and drug crimes.
A Record reporter and photographer witnessed the slashing. They saw bleeding McGovern run after the hitmen as they fled to a waiting Skoda.
He then slumped to the ground and was helped into an ambulance with his head, neck and left hand bandaged.
Distinctive cycling gear worn by Togher during the attack helped get him caught. He admitted assaulting McGovern to the danger of life.
The High Court in Glasgow heard that McGovern had refused to help police. Togher's QC said there had been "historical" bad blood between the men.
Lord Turnbull told him: "The victim was a serving prisoner who was obviously an enemy of yours for one reason or another."
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