Scottish police were yesterday investigating the murder of a former loyalist gunrunner, who was stabbed to death in a Glasgow city street.
Lindsay Robb (38), Airdrie, Lanarkshire, was attacked as he sat in his car in Glasgow's east end at around 5.35pm on Saturday.
Strathclyde Police described the assault as "particularly vicious".
Robb was jailed for 10 years in December 1995 for conspiring to run guns to loyalist terrorists in Northern Ireland.
He was the first Loyalist Volunteer Force prisoner to be released early under the terms of the Belfast agreement.
He walked free from the North's Maze Prison in January 1999 and later settled in Airdrie with his wife.
In 1995, Robb and four other men were found guilty after a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
They were arrested following a four-day MI5 undercover operation that stretched from Falkirk to Liverpool.
Robb was a member of the Progressive Unionist Party at the time.
He had represented the party in discussions with the British government just months before being jailed.
Police are appealing for the driver of a white transit van parked near shops in Gartloch Road, Ruchazie, to come forward.
Officers believe the driver or a passenger may have witnessed the murder.
They say there is nothing to suggest the attack was linked to Robb's paramilitary past. - (PA)