Jail terms for Scottish UVF aides

Updated: 16:57, Wednesday, 25 September 2002

Two Scottish men have been jailed for 11 years each for attempting to ship explosives to Northern Ireland for the paramilitary group, the Ulster Volunteer Force.

The High Court in Glasgow was told 28-year-old Donald Reid was carrying enough explosives to detonate ten car bombs when police stopped his car near his home near Glasgow, in May this year.

Reid and Robert Baird, who is 46 and also lives near Glasgow, admitted conspiring to further the purposes of the UVF by transporting five kilos of explosives from Troon in Scotland to Belfast by ferry.

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