The brother of two of Kriss Donald's killers has admitted being part of a gang who duped 60 pensioners out of £600,000.

The High Court in Glasgow heard how Ahsan Shahid and two other men posed as police officers or bank investigators to con victims.

His brothers Imran and Zeeshan Shahid were jailed in 2006 for killing 15-year-old schoolboy Kriss Donald two years earlier by stabbing him and setting him on fire because he was white.

As part of a two year-long scam, Ahsan Shahid, 41, along with Sean Singh, 21, and Duncan Currie, 42, managed to obtain cash, Rolex watches, designer clothes, Apple products and an e-bike.

Shahid admitted 31 charges, Singh 18 charges and Currie 10.

The court heard that the sophisticated swindle involved pensioners being told their accounts were at threat of scammers.

All three men pleaded guilty to being involved with one another and other unnamed individuals in "fraudulent schemes".

Shahid's brother Imran, also known as Baldy, was the ringleader of a gang that killed 15-year-old Kriss Donald in 2004. He was jailed for a minimum of 25 years for the murder.

Another brother, Zeeshan Shahid, was jailed for a minimum of 23 years while a third man, Faisal Mushtaq, was ordered to serve a minimum of 22 years.

The gang was said to have snatched the schoolboy from Pollokshields in Glasgow then killed him because he was white.

A court in 2006 heard that Kriss was stabbed 13 times before being doused in petrol and set alight while he may still have been alive.

The fraud offences admitted by Ahsan Shahid, Singh and Currie were among a 69-page indictment with the crimes spanning between October 2022 and November 2024.

They mainly took place across Glasgow, East Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire, Dunbartonshire and Ayrshire.

Court papers revealed the set-up involved the gang getting hold of counterfeit documents including a passport and driving licences.

They also created fake identification to pose as officers from Police Scotland as well as from the Metropolitan and West Yorkshire forces.

The gang also obtained mobile phones and computers, illegally leased premises in East Kilbride and Lanarkshire and hired cars as part of the con.

Lists of phone numbers of unsuspecting victims were obtained and scripts prepared to help dupe them.

The indictment featured a list of named pensioners targeted by the fraudsters.

A charge admitted by both Shahid and Singh stated that a 77-year-old woman was told police were apparently investigating unusual activity on her bank account.

She was conned into providing personal details.

During repeated contact, an individual claiming to be a police officer often turned up at her home.

A "bank employee" also appeared and collected cash the pensioner had been told to withdraw from her account.

Prosecutors said someone from the gang then asked about buying a £45,000 watch from the Tom Coll jewellery shop in Glasgow's Argyle Arcade while pretending to be the pensioner's son.

They later got her to pay for a £16,500 GMT Master II Batman Rolex before it was picked up from her house.

Shahid and Singh were also involved in trying to order £30,000 of gold bullion in the pensioner's name as well as attempting to exchange £10,000 for cryptocurrency.

In another incident, a 79-year-old woman was targeted after being ordered to put her mobile, bank cards and pin numbers in an envelope to be collected by someone from her "bank".

A £21,000 loan was then taken out in her name.

The court heard that a shopping spree at the Braehead Shopping Centre near Glasgow saw £10,240 of her cash being spent in the Apple Store, another £1,600 in designer clothes shop Flannels and £1,760 worth of electrical goods bought in Curry's.

Among the other elderly victims was a 77-year-old man who was told he was being watched on CCTV.

A charge involving Shahid said an 83-year-old man was also warned his "movements were being monitored".

He was told to go to a McDonald's in Balloch, West Dunbartonshire, and give £6,000 to an individual supposedly from his bank. He was ordered not to tell police.

The man's bank cards were then used in various places, including for the purchase of a £4,895 electric motorbike from Portman Motors in Glasgow's Kinning Park.

Not guilty charges were accepted for a number of other charges involving Shahid, Singh and Currie.

Advocate depute Scott McKenzie asked for Serious Crime Prevention Orders – also known as super-Asbos – to eventually be imposed on the three men.

Lord Renucci told all the lawyers involved that he "appreciated the time and effort" taken in "resolving this matter".

He said that had the men not pleaded guilty, a 12-week trial would have been set.

The men were remanded in custody and will return to court for sentencing at a later date.