Stone awaits sentence for Stormont raid

A notorious loyalist killer who tried to kill senior Sinn Féin members in a one-man attack on the Northern Ireland Assembly will today find if he is to spend the rest of his life behind bars.

A notorious loyalist killer who tried to kill senior Sinn Féin members in a one-man attack on the Northern Ireland Assembly will today find if he is to spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Michael Stone, 53, is to be sentenced at Belfast Crown Court after being found guilty of attempting to murder Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness in a bizarre armed raid at Stormont.

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