A man has pleaded guilty to wilfully setting fire to a beauty salon linked to an ongoing gang feud in Scotland’s central belt.
Logan Carlin, 24, was arrested after witnesses spotted a man throwing a bottle stuffed with a flaming rag into the Belle Cheveux on Albert Street, Leith, on 6 March.
The salon is believed to be part-owned by Mark Richardson, a convicted Edinburgh drug dealer serving a 10-year jail sentence.
Police believe it was the first building targeted in the dispute between groups in the east and west of the country.