I see on the World news today that Fruitloaf Michael Stone has been found guilty of attempted murder.

The convicted paramilitary killer Stone was found guilty of trying to murder British Sinn Fein leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness at the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2006.

Stone was detained with an imitation firearm, nails, pipe bombs, knives, twelve sausage rolls and an axe trying to get into the building on the day two years ago that McGuinness was designated deputy first minister in the power-sharing government.

Security staff detained him in the revolving doors of the Stormont Assembly on November 24, 2006 as he tried to force his way inside, where members were meeting for the first time since a new agreement to share power was secured.

Stone killed three in a gun and grenade attack on the funeral of three Irish Republican Army (IRA) members shot dead by British special forces in Gilbraltar in 1988.

He was jailed for the killings but subsequently freed under the 1998 Good Friday peace accord.

During the trial for the November 2006 foiled attack he defended his actions by saying that they were performance art, adding: "It's a comic parody of my former self. The judge didn't buy it !