One of Scotland’s most notorious gangsters was escorted from jail to give an “emotional” speech at his mum’s funeral.
Despite being handcuffed to a security guard, violent John Hardie eulogised about his mother to a packed Springburn Parish Church in Glasgow.
The service was attended by associates from the infamous Lyons gang, who are locked in a decades-old bloody turf war with the Daniel clan in the north of the city.
