Gangland Figures Target Family Over Son’s £100,000 Drug Debt
Underworld enforcers Lloyd McKay and Calvin Gilmour are facing sentencing after admitting to petrol-bombing a couple’s luxury car in Dundee as a warning related to their son’s substantial drug debt. The chilling incident, captured on CCTV, was the first of two terrifying attacks on the family.
At Forfar Sheriff Court, McKay, 24, and Gilmour, 21, admitted to setting fire to the couple’s Mercedes on October 27, 2022. The damage was so extensive that it was written off.
Fiscal depute Sarah Wilkinson told the court that the father received phone calls demanding the drug debt his son had accrued, totaling £100,000. The caller warned the father to resolve the situation or face consequences.
When the father heard the car alarm, he looked outside to see his wife’s car ablaze. He contacted the police and fire brigade but was unable to extinguish the fire with a garden hose. “They were immediately suspicious that it related to the earlier phone calls,” Wilkinson stated.
The couple was left £21,000 out of pocket due to a limited insurance payout. Detectives found footage of McKay’s vehicle entering a nearby petrol station. Mobile phone records confirmed he had traveled from Glasgow to the house.
The pair purchased water bottles at the garage, which they later filled with petrol. They smashed the car window with a brick before throwing the petrol inside. One of the men had burn marks on their hands and head and had Googled the query, ‘how to fix burnt hair?’
Sheriff Jillian Martin-Brown has granted both men bail and deferred sentencing until May for social work reports.
Two other gangland figures, Lewis Goldfarb, 41, and Robert Notman, 47, have already been incarcerated for targeting the same family to intimidate them into paying off the debt in December 2022. They were sent to the Dundee area by their Glasgow-based underworld boss.
Notman made multiple trips to slash tires and smash windows at the couple’s home. The fiscal depute, Lora Apostolova, highlighted the clear footage of the incident the family had on their CCTV, which captured the incident with audio. The mother recognized the voices as having “Glasgow accents.”
In a subsequent incident, Goldfarb brought a knife and slashed a Transit van’s tires and smashed a window. Goldfarb admitted to smashing the family’s CCTV camera. The police apprehended the duo within an hour of the incident, and Goldfarb was found to be carrying a lock-knife. Both men have a history of violence.
