A crook who teamed up with a dangerous gangster to rob the daughter of Scotland’s richest woman of £200,000 of jewellery has lost a bid to have his conviction quashed.
Christopher McMultan,40, was given a 12 year sentence after jurors found him guilty of robbery at the Perthshire home of Sarah Gloag in January 2015.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard how McMultan and Brian ‘the Hawk’ Martin – who was once branded Britain’s most dangerous man – forced their into Sarah’s property.
The pair threatened the hairdresser and her husband Sundeep with knives before tying the couple up with masking tape and escaping with Sarah’s precious stones and cash.
Sarah is the daughter of Ann Gloag – the businesswoman who made millions from her Stagecoach bus empire.
Martin, who has more than 50 convictions in a criminal career dating back to 1976, was given a 14 year sentence in November 2015 by temporary judge Paul Arthurson QC.
On Thursday, lawyers acting for McMultan addressed the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh in a bid to have their client’s conviction quashed.
Brian McConnachie QC told judges Lady Dorrian, Lady Clark of Calton and Lord Menzies that his client had been the victim of a miscarriage of justice.
He claimed that correct legal procedure hadn’t been followed in the proceedings against McMultan.
However, the judges ruled that there was enough evidence available to prove that McMultan committed the robbery and that correct procedure was followed.
Lord Menzies said: “We refuse the appeal.”
McMultan and Martin were arrested in a broad daylight armed police swoop in Cupar.
