Flamboyant loyalist crime lord buried with little fanfare

MURDERED ex-paramilitary boss Jim Gray was buried in total ignominy yesterday.

The flamboyant loyalist, 47, who once lorded over an empire of drugs, prostitution and sectarian killings, was denied the showpiece funeral usually granted to Northern Ireland’s terrorist godfathers.

A week after the former Ulster Defence Association commander was gunned down outside his father’s home in south east Belfast, no members of the outlawed organisation showed up to pay any final respects.