Grant Hunter has pleaded guilty to the murder of Marc Webley, shooting the victim outside the Anchor Inn pub on New Year’s Eve 2023.
Two other accomplices were also persecuted, including Hunter’s girlfriend Emma McVie, who cleaned the perpetrator’s clothes after the murder, and Gary Robertson, who admitted to paying Hunter on behalf of “others unknown.”
Marc Webley had strong connections to organised crime in the Edinburgh area. Right before the murder, he had broken up with his girlfriend because of a supposed affair with another mobster, ending wth Webley attempting to rip out his girlfriend’s veneers he had paid for.
Online, Webley posted videos of himself taunting his “enemies,” stating to “come and get it” alongside wearing a stab-proof vest after a £20,000 bounty was placed on his head.
Many students from Edinburgh remembered the unusual event. One third year, Armaan remarked that he briefly remembers how “people felt unsafe in a city which honestly was shaken.”
Another third year, Laurie emphasised how unique the murder was. Relating to crime, “It’s not really in my consciousness, like it’s not that common”
Grant Hunter will be sentenced on 17 December in Glasgow.
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