Drug gang trio jailed for killing girl in Falkirk automobile assault

A drug broker and two accomplices who killed a lady and endangered the lifetime of her boyfriend in a automobile assault in Falkirk have each and every been jailed for 11 years.

Arslan Sajid, 24, drove a Mercedes which hit the again of a automobile pushed by way of Amy Rose Wilson, 27, in New Carron Road in July 2023.

Sajid and co-workers Andrew Gregoire, 29, and Anthony Davidson, 32, have been firstly charged with homicide, however discovered accountable of the lesser fee of culpable murder.

Sentencing the lads, Judge Lady Drummond stated Ms Wilson were “much loved” and her dying was once overwhelming to her circle of relatives.

The trial on the High Court in Edinburgh heard that Sajid pursued the automobile with Ms Wilson and her spouse Ryan Paterson following a row over a drug deal.

Sajid and his accomplices, all from London, had travelled from Essex with 10kg (22lb) of hashish to promote to a Glasgow broker.

But Sajid claimed that Ms Wilson and Mr Paterson had stolen 5 pounds of hashish which belonged to him.

Jurors have been advised that there was once a war of words in a carpark in Cumbernauld, the place Sajid, Gregoire and Davidson smashed the home windows of Ms Wilson’s automobile and threatened to kill them.

Sajid pursued Ms Wilson’s automobile and hit it, inflicting it to spin onto the opposite facet of the street the place it collided with some other car.

Ms Wilson was once killed within the break, however Mr Paterson survived.

The males have been accused of his tried homicide, however have been as an alternative discovered accountable of seriously assaulting him to the risk of his existence.

Jurors heard that Sajid “didn’t appreciate how serious the incident was”.

He advised prosecutor Alan Cameron KC: “It was not my intention for her to die. It was not meant to be like that.”

Judge Lady Drummond stated Ms Wilson’s mom and step-dad described her as a lot liked and described her loss as overwhelming.

She added: “Amy Rose Wilson’s father has said he has supreme difficulty putting into words the immense and devastating loss of his only child has had on his life.

“It is claimed now not having her to any extent further has left an infinite and hole vacancy.”

Sajid, Gregoire and Davidson will also be monitored for a further three years on their release.

The jury also convicted the trio and a fourth man, Steven Hornsby, 55, of conspiring to steal drugs and money at locations across the UK in the days before Ms Wilson’s death.

Hornsby was once jailed for 4 years by way of Lady Drummond.