A convicted criminal fired three rounds of live ammunition through a window after a personal dispute “escalated”, a court has heard.

Nicky Robertson, 39, pleaded guilty to targeting the property in Edinburgh in March this year when the case called at the city’s High Court on Thursday.

The court heard the police inquiry into the case was part of a wider operation investigating a suspected gang feud following violent incidents in the city.

Robertson admitted he “culpably and recklessly” fired a Glock handgun, shooting three rounds of live ammunition through the ground-floor window of a property in Niddrie Marischal Crescent to the danger of anyone inside on March 20 this year.

Robertson, who has previous convictions for attempted murder and assault, also pleaded guilty to three firearms

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