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05/09/2006
Seven year prison term for loyalist's murderer
A former soldier who repeatedly stabbed and killed a member of the Ulster Volunteer Force has today been jailed for seven years.
Lindsay Robb, 39, and a former leading member of the UVF, died following an altercation with 29-year-old Brian Tollett on the Gartloch Road in the Ruchazie area of Glasgow on December 31 2005.
Tollett was found guilty of culpable homicide over the attack.
Glasgow High Court heard that 29-year-old Tollett, a former member of the Royal Fusiliers, got into a fight with Mr Robb over a £140 drug debt.
A witness in the six-day trial told the court how he gave cash to Robb to get some cannabis, however he never received the drugs or the money back.
Just days before the murder, Brian Tollett told the witness, that he would get the money back for him.
The Judge, Lord Brailsford, said he had taken into account the killer's psychological problems as a result of his service in the Balkans, and added that the attack was not unprovoked and that the fatal blow was inflicted as part of a "mutual struggle."
Robb's family and friends shouted abuse from the public gallery as Tollet was led away.
Robb was approached by Tollett as he sat in his car on New Year's Eve.
A struggle ensued on the street and Tollett stabbed his victim a total of 22-times on the body and head. He died later in a Glasgow hospital.
Robb settled in Lanarkshire in Scotland after being released from prison in Northern Ireland in 1999 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, after being convicted four years earlier for his part in a loyalist gun-running operation.
(EF/SP)
Lindsay Robb, 39, and a former leading member of the UVF, died following an altercation with 29-year-old Brian Tollett on the Gartloch Road in the Ruchazie area of Glasgow on December 31 2005.
Tollett was found guilty of culpable homicide over the attack.
Glasgow High Court heard that 29-year-old Tollett, a former member of the Royal Fusiliers, got into a fight with Mr Robb over a £140 drug debt.
A witness in the six-day trial told the court how he gave cash to Robb to get some cannabis, however he never received the drugs or the money back.
Just days before the murder, Brian Tollett told the witness, that he would get the money back for him.
The Judge, Lord Brailsford, said he had taken into account the killer's psychological problems as a result of his service in the Balkans, and added that the attack was not unprovoked and that the fatal blow was inflicted as part of a "mutual struggle."
Robb's family and friends shouted abuse from the public gallery as Tollet was led away.
Robb was approached by Tollett as he sat in his car on New Year's Eve.
A struggle ensued on the street and Tollett stabbed his victim a total of 22-times on the body and head. He died later in a Glasgow hospital.
Robb settled in Lanarkshire in Scotland after being released from prison in Northern Ireland in 1999 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, after being convicted four years earlier for his part in a loyalist gun-running operation.
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