Dealership duo dish out tough justice to forecourt vandal

A father and son who took the regulation into their very own palms and assaulted a person who had vandalised vehicles at their dealership have been fined hundreds of kilos.

After safety cameras captured a person pouring paint stripper onto vehicles at their Murray Motors forecourt in Fraserburgh, Gordon Murray and his son Morgan determined to dish out their very own tough justice.

One week after the assault on their used automotive dealership, which induced hundreds of kilos of injury, they went to the vandal’s residence, which he rented from Murray, and “battered” him.

The two Murrays had been reported by a neighbour of the vandal, Roberto Tudora, and police additionally heard the assault as Tudora had dialled 999.

Within the police recording, performed to the court docket throughout the trial, Tudora could possibly be heard repeatedly screaming for assist amid aggressive background noise.

Tudora was left with a “large lump” on his brow, the prosecution claimed.  

After Gordon Murray, 66, and Morgan Murray, 32, had been convicted of the assault by a jury’s majority determination, Sheriff Craig Findlater at Peterhead Sheriff Court docket criticised them for not simply “leaving it to the authorities”.

Gordon Murray acquired a £6,350 high-quality whereas son Murray was ordered to pay £2,575.

The court docket was advised the Murray Motors enterprise had suffered because of the saga, and that Morgan Murray was quickly as a consequence of be married and needed to place the problem behind him.

Within the interval between the 2021 assault and the Murray duo’s prosecution, Tudora pleaded guily to the vandalism and was sentenced to group service.