Knife killing gang thug is convicted gun runner

A MAN caged for life over the brutal execution of Tony Ferns is an ex-gun runner once jailed for a plot to smuggle weapons into Scotland.

- BY RORY CASSIDY

Craig Colquhoun was jailed last week for being part of the mob who launched a fatal knife attack on popular tiler Tony in Thornliebank, near Glasgow, in April 2019.

Colquhoun was the getaway driver for double-killer Raymond Platt, speeding him away from the scene in the Motability Audi Q2 car belonging to his then-partner's mum.

The Record can now reveal Colquhoun was only able to help Platt and fellow mob members Robert Park, 69, and Joseph McCulloch, 50, with the deadly plot because he'd been released from prison.

He was jailed in 2013 for a gunrunning plot which saw him paying a soldier thousands of pounds to smuggle a deadly arsenal into Scotland from across the border.

Colquhoun, of Barrhead, near Glasgow, was the right-hand man for thug Barry Kelly.

The 39-year-old's role in the gun ring emerged when a drunk soldier ferrying the weapons north to Glasgow abandoned them at a train station in England.