Brian Anderson, 55, received a late-night call at his Glasgow home from Salford gangster Paul Massey.
A Scots photographer has revealed how he was called in to cover the only paramilitary IRA funeral ever held on the UK mainland.
“They were carrying the coffin through the streets of Manchester draped in a tricolour. I noticed some of them giving me looks as if something was about to go down. A gun went off and whizzed by my ear. They didn’t tell me they were going to do it. Someone behind me had fired a volley of shots then threw the gun on the coffin.
Having died suddenly in 2008, aged 35, the military funeral was organised by his criminal and terrorist associates. “Massey had been the mediator in amongst it all then he got shot on his doorstep when the younger team assassinated him. Massey used to call me up in the middle of the night talking about life.
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