Loyalist murder 'as barbaric as Shankill butchers'

The murder of a top loyalist paramilitary was as barbaric as anything inflicted by the notorious Shankill Butchers gang 30 years ago, a Belfast inquest heard today.

Geordie Legge, 37, who was found with his throat cut and multiple stab wounds, is believed to have been killed in a bar owned by a close associate Jim Gray, who was shot dead in the city last October, it was claimed.