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Connor Gordon

MYSTERIOUS: Brothers douse glasgow shop in petrol and set it on fire in botched insurance scam - What They Never Told You

Two brothers who torched their family shop in a failed insurance scam were jailed today for a total of four years.

Sahail and Kasim Ahmed were involved in setting fire to the premises in the Gallowgate - 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.

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