Doris lunged at the Queen

GANGLAND enforcer Francis Doris, convicted last week of plotting to kill a businessman, was one of a group of IRA sympathisers who rushed at the royal carriage in the Royal Mile in 1999.

Doris, now awaiting sentence after being found guilty of conspiring to murder Kevin Martin in 2008, was part of a pack who broke from the crowd lining the route of the Queen's carriage at the opening of the Scottish Parliament in 1999.

No case was pursued against him at the time.