STAND UP TO THESE GANGLAND THUGS

I have urged everyone in Scotland to come together and show a united front against organised crime.

After the murder of Kevin Carroll last week in Glasgow, I raised the matter with Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill.

I am pleased that Kenny MacAskill will be updating MSPs about this week about this matter and I hope he will agree with me that it’s vital that parliament as a whole works together to rid Scotland of the gangland menace.

We need to work together to ensure that gangland figures have nowhere to go and nowhere to hide.

People should be able to go shopping without the kind of incident we saw last week. The public expect action against these individuals and I want to work with all sides to achieve that.