Two brothers who torched their family shop in a failed insurance scam have been jailed for a total of four years. Sahail and Kasim Ahmed were involved in setting fire to the premises in Glasgow's Gallowgate on May 16, 2020 - a crime branded "utterly idiotic" by prosecutors.
Jurors heard the International Mobile Phone Centre had been hit financially by the covid lockdown that year. Porsche-driving Sahail, 38, and his 34-year-old sibling Kasim denied deliberately starting a blaze in a bid to then claim insurance cash.
But Kasim helped get them caught after being captured on CCTV filling a petrol can at a local garage 30 minutes before the fire. The duo were found guilty of a charge of being part of a fraudulent scheme following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
