Ex Scots hood Paul Ferris nearly attacked two Jehovah’s Witnesses at his home – after mistaking them for HMRC officials
EX-GANGLAND figure Paul Ferris revealed how he nearly attacked two Jehovah’s Witnesses at his front door — after mistaking them for HMRC officials amid a tax probe.
The Scots hardman, 57, said he was armed with a weapon and was prepared to use it after being “backed into a corner” during the investigation.
He told James English’s podcast how two “suits” chapped on the door of his farmhouse near Stewarton, Ayrshire, after a previous HMRC raid.
Ferris said: “I’ve got a weapon on me and the weapon was there to be used.
“I opened the door and I shouted to them: ‘What the f**k are yous wanting now?’
“And then I noticed a Gideons Bible — they were Jehovah’s Witnesses.
“I was going to inflict violence on these people. I thought of it as divine intervention.”
He then invited the members of the strict religious group inside for tea and coffee — but said they only stayed 10 minutes.
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Ferris also spoke of how his mental health had been badly affected during the investigation.
He added: “I’d had enough by that stage. I felt as though I was being backed in to a corner.
“The mental health I had at that time was something which right minded people wouldn’t accept.”
Ferris was a notorious enforcer for feared Glasgow ‘Godfather’ Arthur Thompson in the early 1980s.
'DIVINE INTERVENTION'
He served time for weapons possession in 1984 and was sensationally cleared in 1992 of murdering Thompson’s son Arthur Jnr after a £4million trial — at the time the longest in Scottish criminal history.
The reformed underworld figure, who moved to a remote farm after being released from prison, told of his pain losing chickens to a fox.
He joked how he became 'The Henforcer' after getting pet chickens for his new home.
Ferris added: “As a farmer, I got a hen and I got a cockerel and then a couple of weeks later, I’ve got loads of chickens.
'THE HENFORCER'
“I forgot to shut one of the doors and we lost about 20 chickens. If I had a shotgun, I’d have shot that fox.
“There were feathers everywhere. This fox decimated my pets — they all had names like Spike and Geo.”
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We recently told how ex-enforcer Ferris has backed plans for a new film about his life called The Paul Ferris Story.
It follows the success of 2013 big screen biopic The Wee Man, starring actor Martin Compston, 36, playing the young gangster.
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