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The shooting of Nikola Štedul was an attempted assassination in Kirkcaldy, Scotland in 1988.
The victim, Nikola Štedul, was a Croatian emigrant from what was then Yugoslavia. He had been the president the Croatian Statehood Movement, campaigning for Croatian independence from Yugoslavia. Vinko Sindičić arrived in the UK, traveling with a Swiss passport. Early on the morning of 20 October 1988, Štedul, who was walking his dog, was shot at four times by Sindičić.
Štedul survived the shooting and Sindičić was arrested at Heathrow Airport. The Yugoslav embassy subsequently provided an alibi that Sindičić was in the country watching the Scotland-Yugoslavia football match on 19 October. However, residue from the firearm was found on Sindičić's skin. Following an eleven-day trial he was found guilty of attempted murder and sentenced to 15 years in jail. The assassination attempt was subject of a 1994 movie by Scottish Television, The Yugoslav Hitman.