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Monday, August 25, 2025

'Investigator' faces jail sentence for targeting Scots bus tycoons over false claims - HeraldScotland

A self-anointed 'citizen journalist' who uses social media to try to expose supposed criminal behaviour has been told he faces a prison sentence after admitting he breached a legal order relating to a series of false claims against two Scots bus tycoons.

Paul Hendry from East Sussex has already been told he has to pay former Rangers directors Sandy and James Easdale 400,000 in damages over false crime claims made on Twitter and YouTube.

The 59-year-old has been subject of an interdict to stop further publication of the claims and made a pledge that he would not mention the businessmen again.

But he has now accepted that he made further publications and Lord Braid at the Court of Session has told him that he now faces a potential jail sentence for contempt of court.

Hendry, who calls himself a "citizen journalist" on his social media accounts, has previously been found to have used his platforms to falsely name and shame.

The development has come in the wake of action taken by Sandy Easdale, 55, and brother James, 52, who own Greenock-based McGill’s Buses, said to be Scotland's largest independent bus companies.

The pair moved up the 2023 UK Rich List with their fortune now put at 1.425bn The Sunday Times list which revealed the 345 richest people in the UK are placed at 126.

The McGill's Buses tycoons also own Blairs Windows, ARC Fleet Services, Clyde Metals and Inverclyde Taxis.

In May each were each awarded 200,000 against Hendry who had been ordered to take down videos...



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