{"id":27689,"date":"2025-04-25T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T09:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/missing-murderer-raymond-mccourt-caught-on-edinburgh-bus\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T09:26:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T09:26:00","slug":"missing-murderer-raymond-mccourt-caught-on-edinburgh-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/missing-murderer-raymond-mccourt-caught-on-edinburgh-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing murderer Raymond McCourt caught on Edinburgh bus"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Raymond McCourt absconded from HMP Castle Huntly on Tuesday<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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A convicted murderer who went on the run from an open prison in Dundee has been found in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

Raymond McCourt was arrested by plain clothes officers after being removed from a Lothian Bus in the city’s London Road area on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

He was earlier spotted on Duke Street in Glasgow after being reported missing from HMP Castle Huntly on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

McCourt, 59, was jailed in 1993 after shooting shopkeeper Khalid Mahmood in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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An eyewitness told BBC Scotland News that McCourt was “surrounded” by six officers when he was asked to step off a No. 5 bus close to the junction with Leith Walk.<\/p>\n

It is understood he boarded the bus in the Abbeyhill area minutes earlier.<\/p>\n

Passengers saw him being searched by plain clothes and uniformed officers before the bus was allowed to move on.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Raymond McCourt was last seen on a street in the east end of Glasgow<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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McCourt was jailed at the age of 27 for the shooting of Khalid Mahmood.<\/p>\n

He was released on licence in 2015, but was returned to prison after stealing valuables from his partner at the time.<\/p>\n

He used the money to pay for a holiday to Blackpool before being tracked down by police.<\/p>\n

Perth Sheriff Court heard that he was struggling to cope with life outside of prison and had stolen the items to have a blow-out prior to his return to jail.<\/p>\n

He was given a further 10-month sentence for that crime and returned to prison on his life term for murder.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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