The top table was the 'High Court' as dealer Terry Scott was said to have put a "four or five-figure" sum behind the bar.
This is the lavish wedding of a convicted heroin dealer who is now being hounded for tens of thousands of pounds of ill-gotten gains.
Grinning Terry Scott, pictured on the left above, was jailed last month for six years after an undercover police operation targeted his multi-million-pound trafficking network.
Decked out in white tie, dress jacket and kilt, the 32-year-old was already on the police radar when this snap was taken at the reception, held in a posh city hotel.
Unrepentant Scott – who was previously jailed for his role as the getaway driver in a pub shooting – even named the tables after Scottish prisons where he has served time, the Daily Record reports.
Champagne-guzzling guests ate at 'Shotts', 'Saughton', 'Perth' and 'Addiewell', while the top table, where he sat with new bride Gillian, 32, was called the 'High Court'.
Sitting alongside Scott in the centre is best man Michael Wright, 30, who was also arrested over the bar shooting, while seated to the right is Don Webley – a reputed gangland enforcer and the first person to be banned from every nightclub in Edinburgh for life.
Sources say Webley’s younger brother Marc – jailed for gunning down a rival in a motorbike ambush during a drugs war – was supposed to be best man but had to miss the event because consorting with criminals could see his licence revoked.
Scott is said to have put a 'four or five-figure' sum behind the bar at the Norton House Hotel and Spa in Ingliston, Edinburgh, to pay for drinks during the celebrations. Hotel staff were said to have been terrified by the guests’ behaviour, which included snorting cocaine.
Police were aware of the nuptials, attended by many of Edinburgh’s most notorious gangsters.
The Crown Office confirmed that Scott is being pursued under the Proceeds of Crime Act for money he is believed to have amassed from drug peddling.
His wife Gillian works as the e-commerce boss for government agency Historic Scotland, and was arrested during a police probe into her husband’s illegal activities.
The mother of one, who manages the agency’s website, was initially reported to the Crown Office over money laundering claims but the case was later dropped.
It is understood that staff at Historic Scotland – who run sites like Edinburgh Castle – were visited by detectives from the Organised Crime and Counter Terrorism Unit on several occasions and quizzed over phone calls made to a mobile phone belonging to the agency.
A source said: “It was a Who’s Who of Edinburgh criminals at the reception. The only person who wasn’t there was Marc Webley as he was out on licence. He would’ve been returned to jail for mixing with criminals.
“There was cocaine being taken and the poor hotel staff were left terrified by having all these people.
“As well as the reception, the wedding party took a number of rooms at the hotel and one was smashed up.”
The Record is unable to name two other hardened criminals present at the reception as they are currently facing serious charges in court.
It is understood that no one from Historic Scotland was invited to the wedding at the country house venue, winner of the AA Hotel of the Year Scotland 2010.
Scott is thought to have bought engagement and wedding rings for his bride at exclusive jeweller Hamilton & Inches.
It is believed that the wedding reception and the rings – all paid for in cash – form part of the
proceeds of crime inquiry.
proceeds of crime inquiry.
Scott controlled much of the heroin supply in north Edinburgh and had a fearsome reputation for violence. He was said to have a network of young addicts to deal the drugs while other vulnerable users were forced to store supplies in their houses.
Scott was arrested last August and jailed for six years and four months after pleading guilty to trafficking heroin between March and July 2013.
Detective Superintendent David Gordon said Scott had been instrumental in heroin supply for a “prolonged period”.
Scott got married in December 2012 after he was released from a five years and seven months sentence for acting as the getaway driver for hitman Sean “Lugs” McGovern.
McGovern, 30, was given 17 years after opening fire with a shotgun at The Gauntlet bar in Broomhouse in 2008 as part of a bitter feud with a rival dealer.
Scott and McGovern were also convicted of involvement in a gang targeted by Operation Nuclear – a police blitz which saw McGovern’s home bugged and £323,500 of heroin and cocaine seized.
Best man Michael Wright was charged with attempted murder over the gun attack but was not convicted.
Don Webley, 32, became the first person to receive a lifetime nightclub ban under the U-night scheme in 2008 after an assault on drug dealer James Carlin outside the City disco. He was previously jailed for throwing a petrol bomb at staff outside the Revolution club in 2003.
Marc Webley, 28, was jailed for 11 years in 2005 for shooting convicted drug dealer Peter Simpson in the back in Granton.
A close friend of Scott, Webley was out on licence at the time of the wedding but was jailed again last year after pleading guilty to trying to intimidate a man into handing over £1000 at a Leith garage.
A Crown Office spokesman said a confiscation hearing against Scott was set for December 15 at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Historic Scotland said: “Any criminal investigations are matters for Police Scotland and it would be inappropriate to comment on this matter.”
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