Top Edinburgh security boss George Haig jailed for five years after 8000 valium and stun guns found in police raid

A top security boss and a former Royal Military Police officer who ran a business together providing 'protection' for the likes of Amal and George Clooney were jailed for a total of ten years today.

Stun guns and drugs were found in the headquarters of the business owned by George Haig, 58, and Stuart Anderson, 39.

Dubbed 'security men to the stars', they provided their services at a charity bash in Edinburgh attended by the Clooneys as well as a Glasgow fundraiser organised by a foundation set up by boxer Amir Khan.

The firm's website, 'Complete Protection Consultants', says:

"After agreeing standard operational procedures with each individual client, we then serve their needs 24 hours a day, constantly evolving our services through ongoing consultation and adapting to the constant changes in local and global risk."

The pair were arrested during a raid at the Leith offices of the firm last year.

Police searched the premises in Anderson Place on May 25 2018 and found two stun guns, which had been disguised as torches, and a stash of nearly 8000 diazepam pills worth £7870.

Haig was stopped by police as he got into his BMW and Anderson later arrived to the scene in his Mini.

Both admitted to being in breach of the Firearms Act by possessing a stun gun each and Anderson admitted being concerned in the supply of diazepam.

At the High Court in Aberdeen, judge Lord Arthurson jailed Haig, from Craigentinny, Edinburgh, and Anderson, from Wallyford, East Lothian , for five years each, the minimum tariff under the Firearms Act without exceptional circumstances.

Anderson was also handed a one-year sentence for the drugs offence, but Lord Arthurson said that in the light of the fact that he had no previous convictions for drugs offences it would run concurrent to the five-year firearms sentence.

Haig told police that the stun guns, which were said to be 'of East Asian origin', had been bought from a website and there had been 'no intention' of using them.

Anderson, who had previously served in in the Territorial Army and the Royal Military Police Reserve before joining Complete Protection Consultants, said he had the stun gun for 'training purposes'.

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