A LOYALIST politician has lost his appeal to have a 10-year sentence for his involvement in a plot to run guns to the Ulster Volunteer Force quashed. Lindsay Robb (29) was told in the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday that his appeal earlier this year had been unsuccessful.
Robb, a member of the Progressive Unionist Party, took part in peace talks with the British government last year.
Last December at the High Court in Glasgow, he was jailed for 10 years after being found guilty of attempting to organise the transfer of guns and ammunition to Northern Ireland via Scotland.
The court was told how Robb had been caught after calls were made from his mobile phone to organise the transfer of the weapons. His 11-day trial featured the first appearance in a Scottish court of MI5 agents who had arrested him.
