A NOTORIOUS gangster’s brother who pulled his estranged wife from a car and threw her to the ground is working as a janitor at Barrhead High School, reports Sean Rooney.

Scott Boyd launched the assault on Kelly Boyd following a row over access to the couple’s children.

As reported in the Barrhead News, Kelly, 37, sobbed as she told Glasgow Sheriff Court how her husband of 14 years dragged her from his car in Nitshill’s Pinmore Street on August 7, 2014.

Scott, 38, who has three children with Kelly, denied the assault but was found guilty after trial last week.

He is the brother of notorious Glasgow gangster ‘Specky’ Boyd who ran his criminal empire from the now demolished Royal Oak pub on Nitshill Road.

Specky died in a road accident in Spain while under investigation for an alleged major drug trafficking operation.

East Renfrewshire Council confirmed that Scott works at Barrhead High but say the court case doesn’t have a bearing on how Scott does his job.

A spokeswoman said: “The outcome of the court proceedings is not related to his abilities to carry out his job.

“As this is a private matter for an individual we are unable to comment further.”

Meanwhile, heartbroken Kelly claims her life has been ‘utterly destroyed’ by Scott and questioned whether someone with Boyd’s temper should be working around children.

She said: “I loved him so much, and I feel like he has taken everything from me.

“I have been left as something I never wanted to be, a single mother, unemployed and living off benefits.

“It’s had a terrible affect on me.

“I feel like a prisoner in my own home, the home that I grew up in.

“There had been signs that he could get like this, he had a very short temper and would throw things and break things.

“But I never thought things would get this bad.”

The couple split after Kelly suspected Scott was having an affair with a colleague.

The court heard that Scott had turned up on that day in August 2014 expecting to see his three children, aged 10, 12 and 15, but was told they were not there when he arrived.

Kelly told the court: “We kept talking as we walked to the car, it was a normal conversation.

“When we got to it he unlocked it and nodded at it, so I opened the passenger door of the car and sat in it.”

Minutes later Scott, formerly of Neilston, started the engine and drove a short distance around the corner before slamming on the brakes, and going round to the passenger side.

He opened the door and grabbed his wife, who was wearing a cast for a broken arm at the time, before throwing her out of the car and on to the pavement.

Boyd stared straight ahead as his wife said: “He didn’t say a thing, just left me lying there.

“How could you do that to me, your wife, the person you were supposed to love?”

The incident was witnessed by Brenda Birchill, 47, who was walking past.

When asked if the man she was referring to was present in the court, she pointed to Scott in the dock.

She said: “He went round to the other side and opened the door, grabbed her by the arm or shoulder and dragged her out the car.

“I couldn’t see what happened next because the car was in the way.

“He got in and drove away and I saw Kelly on the ground crying.”

However Scott protested his innocence, saying Kelly “lost the plot” and started tearing the interior of his car apart as he drove.

He claimed she had lied to the court, saying: “She’s out to destroy me.”

The jury of five men and 10 women found Scott not guilty of grabbing her by the hair or kicking her, but returned a unanimous guilty verdict that he assaulted her by grabbing her by the body and pulling her out of the car.

Sheriff Mitchell deferred sentencing until February 2.