yoker brian wrote:When I've been getting a lift back to Glasgow from Edinburgh at night the past few weeks I've seen similar convoys coming off the A(M)8 at the Shotts cut off over the last few weeks at around 5pm - half a dozen out riders, couple of traffic cars and 4x4s with the G4s minibus, can only assume it's to do with the recent high profile case of attempted assassination of Northern Irish former paramilitaries now based in Scotland - and that's as much as I want to speculate on what's been going on
Seen the same about 07:30 in the morning, when I'm going through to Edinburgh, as I usually meander along the Salsburgh Road towards Harthill, and meet them coming from Shotts, obviously from the HMP, and going on the M8.
From a relative I have associated with one of the agencies it is prisoner transport escort.
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