The pre-Xmas edition of the Gazette reports the grisly trial of Halil Ates for a savage attack in Coatbridge House on the Bemerton Estate.  In 2004 Ates beat, imprisoned and tortured a Polish guy to whom he had illegally sublet his sister’s council flat in Coatbridge. Pawel Borycki had rented the flat no t knowing it had been illegally sublet.  When a housing officer turned up to ask routine questions the fiddle fell through.  Ates turned up with a gang of 20 people to evict Borycki for ‘shopping ‘ him to the authorities.  Borycki’s hands were bound and he was gagged with tape before being beatne with and iron bar and attacked with a knife.  Ates was found guilty of wounding with intent and false imprisonment.  Sentencing is on 16th Jan.