Imran ‘Baldy’ Shahid is a notorious race-hate killer currently behind bars for the brutal murder of a schoolboy in Glasgow.
Baldy is currently serving a 25-year sentence for the murder of 15-year-old Kriss Donald on Kenmure Street in Glasgow’s southside on March 15, 2004. The thug, alongside five others, targeted innocent Kriss as he walked home in an apparent revenge attack after an earlier altercation in a nightclub with a group of white men.
They bundled Kriss into the back of a car before taking him to Clyde Walkway, where they held his arms back and stabbed him 13 times before dousing him in petrol and setting him on fire as he bled to death. Baldy has since been held at various prisons across Scotland, including Inverness, Peterhead, Perth, Kilmarnock and Saughton.
View 5 ImagesInnocent Kriss Donald
At the time of Kriss’ death, Baldy was the ring leader of the Shielders gang, a notorious, racially motivated crime syndicate that reigned terror in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow in the early 2000s. The gang was primarily known for extreme acts of violence, extortion, and intimidation.
Last week, Baldy refused to help a rapist thug who had been a member of the gang. Ameer Arshad, 31, was a member of the infamous Shielders clan before he was caged last year for the brutal rapes of a young man and a woman in separate attacks.
View 5 ImagesAmeer Arshad reached out to Baldy for help.
A source told the Record that Arshad is now being terrorised by other cons behind bars, but Baldy has refused to front up money to keep him safe. The source added that Baldy is sickened by Arshad’s sex crimes and knocked back his pleas for help.
They said: “Baldy still runs the Shielders gang from his jail cell, so this request had to go through him, but he wasn’t having any of it and won’t pay up under any circumstances.”
Imran “Baldy” Shahid was born in Huddersfield in West Yorkshire but was raised in Pollokshields. He is the son of a wealthy businessman but developed a reputation as a violent street bully from an early age.
In 1994, at just 17-years-old, he used a baseball bat to attack a 25-year-old man, leaving the victim with permanent brain damage. Just like he would later do after murdering Kriss Donald, Baldy fled to Pakistan after this assault but was ultimately caught and sentenced to four and a half years in prison.
Prior to Kriss’ murder in 2004, his adulthood continued to be defined by various convictions, including weapon possession, fraud, and a two-year prison sentence for punching a female social worker and driving a car at her. He was also known within Glasgow’s criminal underworld for extreme acts of torture, including reportedly chopping off a rival’s finger.
View 5 ImagesEvil Baldy was jailed for 25 years for the murder of Kriss Donald(Image: PA)
During the incident, he chopped off the finger of the man who was dating one of his sisters. He then put the digit in a glass of milk and handed it back over to him.
From an early age, he and his brother Zeeshan “Crazy” Shahid shunned the hard work ethic of the vast majority of Asians in the area. Local residents reportedly said they were “notorious thugs” – second-generation Asian youths who reject the values of their parents.
Zeeshan Shahid also has a substantial criminal record, including 18 months’ jail for culpable and reckless conduct. In 2012, he ordered a revenge hit on an accomplice turned grass involved in the Kriss Donald murder.
Daanish Zahid traded information for a lesser sentence for the murder. Zahid was sent from prison to Glasgow Royal Infirmary for treatment. Baldy’s hitmen stormed through the corridors, armed with knives, demanding to see the killer. Terrified nurses called police in before Zahid was found.
The Shielders were a highly violent, predominantly British-Pakistani street gang that operated primarily out of the South Side of Glasgow during the 1990s and early 2000s. Helmed by Baldy, members became notorious for bringing unprecedented levels of fear, intimidation, and brutal violence to what was Scotland’s largest mixed-race community.
They fiercely protected their turf from mobsters in neighbouring areas of Glasgow, such as gangs based around Paisley Road West. They were known to have clashed with a rival Asian gang and were linked to the firebombing of a car in 1998.
View 5 ImagesCCTV footage showing medics rushing to Baldy’s aid after an attack in prison (Image: Sunday Mail)
More recently, in 2011, it was reported that Blady was slashed from his ear to his backside in Saughton after it was claimed he was trying to extort cash out of young cons. He was attacked again by convicted murderer William Crawford at the gym in Kilmarnock jail in 2013 and left for dead after being smashed over the skull with a 15kg weight.
Baldy is believed to have slashed his own throat in 2022 in Peterhead and was rushed to hospital, but the extent of his injuries and circumstances surrounding the incident remain unknown.
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