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I'm no egocentric killer - Stone | I'm no egocentric killer - Stone |
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Michael Stone has denied he was an "egocentric killer...who was completing unfinished business". | Michael Stone has denied he was an "egocentric killer...who was completing unfinished business". |
The loyalist killer is on trial for the attempted murder of Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness in Stormont in November 2006. | The loyalist killer is on trial for the attempted murder of Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness in Stormont in November 2006. |
Stone said that, before the Good Friday Agreement, one of his "biggest regrets" was not killing the two men during his attack at Milltown cemetery in 1988. | Stone said that, before the Good Friday Agreement, one of his "biggest regrets" was not killing the two men during his attack at Milltown cemetery in 1988. |
The 53-year-old denies the attempted murder charges and 12 other charges. | The 53-year-old denies the attempted murder charges and 12 other charges. |
Stone also admitted to the court that, when he was an active loyalist paramilitary, he had been part of a plan to assassinate former London mayor Ken Livingstone - at the time the leader of now-defunct Greater London Council (GLC) - and had even gone on "two dry runs" before the operation was aborted. | |
He confessed the plan had been to disguise himself as a jogger, to use a gun to shoot Mr Livingstone "once in the head and twice in the body", before running along the Thames embankment and throwing the murder weapon into the river. | He confessed the plan had been to disguise himself as a jogger, to use a gun to shoot Mr Livingstone "once in the head and twice in the body", before running along the Thames embankment and throwing the murder weapon into the river. |
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