An Edinburgh thug who fled to Indonesia while awaiting sentence for a knifepoint attack during a "drugs feud" has been jailed for 38 months.
Connor Goldie and two other masked men invaded the home of a man and subjected him to a terrifying ordeal. The gang held a blade to his throat and demanded cash and drugs before making off with his mobile phone.
Cops snared Goldie, 29, after finding one of his shoes whose sole matched an imprint left on the victim's arm. Goldie appeared from custody at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Thursday and pled guilty to assault and robbery.
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The court heard Goldie took "the matter into his own hands" after being stabbed in the chest, landing him in intensive care for five days, reports the Record.
Defence agent Murray Robertson said his client had been involved in an "ongoing drugs feud". Mr Robertson added Goldie understood "vigilantism like this is not something the court will have any truck with."
Goldie had previously pleaded guilty to the charge, but the court heard he bolted from the UK to Indonesia, missing his original sentencing date.
Mr Robertson said Goldie had returned to "face the music" after leaving Indonesia where he is understood to have a wife.
Sheriff Norman McFadyen said it was a "violent episode involving the invasion of the complainer's home" and jailed him for more than three years.
Fiscal depute Anna Chisholm said Goldie and two men were masked when they forced entry to a home in the city's Lochend area on June 25, 2020.
The court heard how the gang assaulted Harry Kinnear and pushed him back onto a chair. The men held a knife against his throat and repeatedly punched him to the head and body, causing him to fall to the ground.
The trio repeatedly kicked and stamped on the victim, the court heard, and made demands for money, drugs and his phone. Ms Chisholm said the group threatened to return and assault Kinnear further, before robbing him of his mobile.
She said police later recovered a shoe belonging to Goldie, of the city's Restalrig area, and the "footprint matched" an injury on the victim's arm.
Mr Robertson said Goldie had been stabbed on May 20 2020 and underwent thoracic surgery in hospital for the chest wound. The solicitor added: "He then decided to take matters into his own hands."
Mr Robertson said Goldie accepted it would have been a "very frightening matter" for Kinnear. He said his client's guilty plea had avoided the victim "reliving" the experience during a trial.
Mr Robertson said dad Goldie had been "off drugs for a year".
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