A gangster who used a metal detector to try to find a hidden deadly Glock pistol during recent Scots mob wars has been jailed for six years and nine months.

Liam McDermid, 25, used the device to try to secure the firearm which had been hidden in undergrowth at Edinburgh’s Roseburn cycle path.

The high court in the Scottish capital heard how the weapon - and multiple rounds of lethal 9mm ammunition - was recovered by police close to the nursery and junior buildings of St George’s school. Officers found the Glock on June 11 this year.

McDermid, of Magdalene Gardens, Edinburgh, was seen on the path on June 5 this year with the metal detector looking for the device.

He was later arrested and McDermid, who has 25 previous convictions, became the first gangster to be prosecuted as a conseque

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