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Scots Blue Angels biker gang thugs hunted over machete murder bid attack at funeral
Cops are treating the incident as 'attempted murder'
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MACHETE-wielding thugs from the Blue Angels biker gang are being hunted over kill bids on three men at a funeral.
Witnesses told how 'vanloads' of masked brutes swooped on the send-off for crash victim Gordon Luke, 71, to confront members of the rival Mad Dogs motorcycle club.
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Talented musician Gordon Luke passed away after a tragic bike accident last month
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Cops were called to The Hurlet after three men suffered 'serious injuries'
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Masked brutes swooped on the send-off for Gordon
Credit: © Jamie Williamson
When their two targets left in a bid to avoid trouble, the maniacs smashed up their car and then turned their blades and hammers on mourners.
We told how a grandad, aged 65, plus two other men aged 30 and 44, were rushed to hospital with serious injuries.
The mass brawl happened last Friday at The Hurlet Crematorium in Barrhead, near Glasgow.
Last night, a source said: 'The Blue Angels turned up to cause terror — masked-up and armed. It was sickening.
"Other mourners told them to leave, and that's when they were attacked.
"The three men injured were civilians paying their respects at a friend's funeral.
The Blue Angels turned up to cause terror — masked-up and armed. It was sickening... It is now being treated as attempted murder
A source
'It is now being treated as attempted murder.'
We told of an ongoing feud between rival biker gangs has been raging for months in the wake of high-ranking BA member Laponder leaving the mob and setting Mad Dogs.
We told how heavily-tattooed Laponder blamed a 'snitch' in his old crew after being caged for bombing a rival's dad's works van in Lennoxtown, Dunbartonshire, in June last year.
The gangs' feud was sparked when ex-Blue Angel Dan Laponder, 44, left to set up his own mob.
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Tensions had earlier boiled when a 20-strong mob wrecked a motorbike garage in November 2023.
An insider claimed Laponder then opted to switch sides as a pal was one of two men left with horror injuries in the ambush at Totally Spanners in Glasgow's Hillington.
Our source said in December: 'Dan looked at who was running about with him and decided he'd had enough.'
We told how the brute went on to blow up a BT van used by Blue Angels member David Rollo's father.
ATTACK AFTER CRASH ORDEAL
By Graham Mann
GORDON Luke previously told of being attacked by a mob who burst into his home.
The then 64-year-old told The Scottish Sun how he feared for his life when three blade thugs pounced in Linwood, near Paisley.
Amputee Gordon - who had lost a leg in a March 2018 bike accident - thought he was a goner when the maniacs booted in his front door.
Gordon said in September that year: 'I thought I was going to die. I was terrified.
'They were trying to get to me with knives. There's not much I could do because I'm vulnerable.'
The biker club founder said they showed up after he was mugged by two crooks who'd offered to help with his shopping.
He added: 'I'd bumped into the people who stole the money and said I wanted it back.
'My biker friends warned them to stay away then I heard kicking at the door.
'To do that to someone in a wheelchair is repulsive.'
Weeks later a hooded thug hurled accelerant on a clubhouse in Airdrie in another attack linked to the feud.
Laponder, now holed up at Greenock's prison, previously posed with a sawn-off shotgun.
He was jailed for nine years at Glasgow's High Court in November.
Police Scotland said: 'Around 3pm on Friday officers were called to a report of a disturbance in the Glasgow Road area of Hurlet, Glasgow.
'Emergency services attended and a 30-year-old man was taken to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow with serious injuries.
'Two other men, aged 44 and 65, were taken to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, both with serious injuries. Enquiries are ongoing.'
