‘Chilling warning that stopped me selling explosives to the IRA’ - ex-gangster John Lawson tells how he escaped a life of brutality and crime
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  Feb 15, 2022  
     
 
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‘Chilling warning that stopped me selling explosives to the IRA’
‘Chilling warning that stopped me selling explosives to the IRA’
 
A former Scottish gangster says he had a narrow escape from a potentially deadly business deal when a former IRA member in Liverpool strongly advised him against trying to sell plastic explosives to the Provisionals.
 
     
 
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