Police have turned a blind eye
Hay Drive doesn’t look like a gangland stronghold. With its whitewashed homes and its looming rows of satellite dishes, it’s a vision of unchanging Scottish suburbia, stolid, dreary, perhaps a little poor. But, last month, this anonymous corner of south Edinburgh exploded into violence. On 4 April, at about 1:20am, a house on Hay Drive was set ablaze. The fire soon spread to a nearby, seriously damaging both. And not only that. Since March, around a dozen properties have faced arson attacks right across the Central Belt, a campaign accompanied by shootings and assaults.
