A rapist thug linked to one of Glasgow’s most violent gangs has begged race-hate killer Imran “Baldy” Shahid to cough up cash to protect him in jail.
Ameer Arshad, 31, was a member of Baldy’s ‘infamous Shielders’ crime clan from the Pollokshields area of the city before he was caged last year for the brutal rapes of a young man and a woman in separate attacks.
A source told the Record Arshad is now being terrorised by other cons behind bars, but Baldy has refused to front up money to keep him safe.
He said: “Arshad was once a well connected guy in the south-side, with lots of people who always looked after him.
View 4 ImagesImran ‘Baldy’ Shahid refused to help the rapist. (Image: Daily Record)
“Now he’s banged up with other Barlinnie beasts who are threatening him, so he’s asked Baldy and his old crew to pay folk on the inside £10k to give him security.”
The source added that Baldy, who is currently serving a 25-year sentence for the murder of 15-year-old schoolboy Kriss Donald, is sickened by Arshad’s sex crimes and knocked back his pleas for help.
They continued: “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.”
Arshad raped a 17-year-old boy in a lane in Glasgow in July of 2022.
In July of 2023, he repeatedly raped an intoxicated woman at the St Enoch Centre in the city.
He was sentenced to ten years after being found guilty at a trial in the High Court in Edinburgh and placed on the sex offenders’ register indefinitely.
The source said helping predators goes against the Shielders’ code of conduct and added that is more likely they will now attack Arshad in jail.
View 4 ImagesAmeer Arshad was jailed for two sex attacks last year. (Image: Collect)
He continued: “Arshad knows the score, this is an honour thing so he will be completely shunned for the rest of his life.
“The Shielders and Baldy have a lot of power in the prisons so they are more likely to pay out money for someone to slash him in the jail rather than help him.
“He has disgraced his community with all of this so will have to pay the penalty.”
Five men from Baldy’s gang abducted teenager Kriss Donald on Kenmure Street in Glasgow’s southside on March 15 2004 in an apparent revenge attack.
View 4 ImagesKriss Donald
It came after the ring leader and his men were involved in an earlier nightclub altercation with a group of white men, later targeting Kriss as an example of a ‘white boy from the area’ despite him having no involvement in the nightclub incident.
They took Kriss to the Clyde Walkway, 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 held at various prisons including; Inverness, Peterhead, Perth, Kilmarnock and Saughton.
In 2011 it was reported he 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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