A member of Scotland’s top crime gang is worried prosecutors will stop him playing computer games when he is freed from jail.
Barry O’Neill, 37, was back in the dock yesterday, 24 hours after he and eight others were jailed for a total of 87 years.
A further hearing took place after moves were made to hit the clan with Serious Crime Prevention Orders (SCPO).
They allow police to monitor a criminal’s business dealings, communications and movements once they are released from jail,and limit their access to mobile phones and computers.
At the High Court in Glasgow, QC Mhairi Richards, representing O’Neill, claimed terms of the order could mean he “can’t sit on his own couch with his children playing Xbox” when he is released.
The QC said: “That [details of the order] is only going to have significant impact on his family.”
Judge Lord Beckett said he would “encourage” the advocate to discuss this with prosecutors. The hearing was continued until later this week.
Gerard Docherty, 42, and Steven McArdle, 33 had a SCPO imposed. It includes them not having contact with a certain “list of persons”.
