A Lanarkshire man was crushed unconscious after forgetting a piece device.
The surprising incident was caught on digital camera, with the sufferer later being sacked by his infamous boss.
The sickening assault in Edinburgh was carried out on an worker of a constructing agency run by businessman, David Love.
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The sufferer was focused in an assault which noticed him mendacity immobile on the bottom whereas nonetheless being punched by a thug.
Moments earlier, he was repeatedly requested, “The place’s the analyser?” and instructed to fetch it.
It’s understood the employee failed to herald a fuel analyser utilized in boiler exhausts.
Cops attended however mentioned they got “no data” by individuals they traced and “no criticism” was acquired.
Love is seen firstly of the movie. Final evening, he mentioned the injured man was a fuel engineer he’d employed for 2 weeks.
The 41-year-old mentioned it was a employee from a unique firm who turned up on the scene and attacked the sufferer.
Following the beating, Love mentioned the sufferer was taken house the place he handed over the fuel analyser earlier than being sacked.
The attacker’s face is blocked out within the video and voices are disguised utilizing software program to forestall his identification.
Love has constructed up a popularity for having ruthless enterprise practices, together with sending a video of a masked man wielding an AK47 assault rifle to a buyer with an unpaid invoice.
The ex-boxer arrange a debt assortment the place he visited properties in a stab proof vest to demand money. He additionally dumped a mum-of-nine’s belongings in a backyard throughout an eviction.
The brand new video was filmed about 2pm on March 4 and begins with males leaping out of a car in West Pilton Mortgage the place a David Love Property (DLP) van is parked.
A person is heard asking: “Is the analyser there?”
Love is seen trying at the back of his firm van.
The digital camera focuses on the sufferer, a person in a hooded prime, with voices demanding, “The place is it?” and, “The place’s the boy’s analyser?”. The sufferer backs away as he’s instructed: “No extra f*****g, you dafty, the place’s the analyser?” The person responds: “I’m getting it now.”
He's instructed: “Bounce within the f*****g van – I’ll drive you thru.”
The sufferer seems reluctant to get in and is instructed: “Get within the van and we’ll go and get the analyser now.”
He remonstrates with the opposite man and after receiving extra abuse, the attacker tells him: “You assume I’m joking? You assume I’m joking?”
The sufferer backs up, placing up a hand in direction of his face to defend himself, as a clenched fist comes into shot.
A punch is thrown and the sufferer finally ends up splayed over the bonnet of a 4x4. He’s grabbed from behind and thrown on to a driveway.
The sufferer is kicked earlier than receiving blows to the top, together with 5 punches after he lands limp on the bottom.
The attacker punches him twice extra within the abdomen.
Requested in regards to the incident, Love instructed our sister paper - the Each day Document - the sufferer’s earlier employers had turned as much as remonstrate with him over different issues.
He mentioned: “It wasn’t a DLP worker who carried out the assault. I don’t know who he was. The man (who was assaulted) working for me was a brand new begin. There had been an analyser lacking.
“His earlier employer confirmed up on the identical time so there have been individuals unknown to me there. I went into the home so I missed the assault.”
Love mentioned the £600 analyser was within the sufferer’s house in Lanarkshire when he was pushed there earlier than he was “fired”.
In 2019, we obtained a video displaying Love going through a mirror with a masked gunman wielding an AK47 earlier than shouting: “I need my f*****g cash.”
Love, who boasts of getting a seven-figure property portfolio in Edinburgh, Fife, Aberdeen and Tenerife, mentioned it was a “little joke” however the buyer settled.
In a second video, Love was seen snipping reside cables at a Midlothian restaurant after claiming they hadn’t been paid.
In 2018, we instructed how Love dumped Donna Newby’s issues in a backyard.
Love and Donna later appeared on ITV’s Choose Rinder the place he gained £1250 after Rinder sided with him.
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