VW Golf linked to gang hit found burned

POLICE have appealed for information about a car believed to have been used in the murder of a gangland figure this week.

Kevin Carroll was shot five times while he sat in his black Audi in the car park of Asda's Robroyston store in Glasgow.

Forensics officers from Strathclyde Police were yesterday examining a burnt-out car recovered on a Lanarkshire country road. The vehicle, a dark blue Volkswagen Golf, had been fitted with fake registration plates, YF55 EZZ, and was recovered in Yetts Hole Road, in Glenmavis, Airdrie.

It had been stolen three months ago from an address in the Rutherglen area, and police have asked anyone with information about its movements to get in touch.

Meanwhile, two men who were given record jail sentences of 35 years for a gangland murder in Glasgow, linked to the shooting of Mr Carroll, appeared in the Court of Appeal yesterday. Raymond Anderson, 48, and James McDonald, 36, were convicted of the fatal shooting of Michael Lyons, 21, at a garage in the city's Lambhill in December 2006.

Two other men were injured when gunmen, wearing "old men" masks and dark, three-quarter length coats, entered the MOT centre and opened fire. It was suspected the murder had been part of a war between the notorious Daniel and Lyons crime families.