Former Rangers chief Paul Murray feared home was bugged after break-in while club was on the brink

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Paul Murray saw it coming long before most. So rather than wait around for the heartbreak of Valentine’s Day, the Rangers board member took the family on a skiing trip to France.

He knew deep down there was nothing more for him to do here. It was 2012 and Rangers were about to be dragged over into a financial abyss and into the hands of administrators – the first step towards liquidation.

Paul, 57, had warned all along this was where the club he loved would end up.He told David Murray that this day would be inevitable but it fell on deaf ears.He spent the next 12 months screaming out to a world in which no one seemed willing to listen.

But what Paul could not possibly have predicted was the sinister turn of events about to unfold in the dead of night back at his empty home in the Borders.The events in the hours leading up to the multi-million pound scandal which shook the game to its very core are a spine-tingling twist to an astonishingly dark story of deceit, deception and double crossing he’s never told before.Being advised by police to have the family house swept for hearing devices was not something he felt comfortable discussing in public.Paul would ultimately guide the group that saved Rangers but, 10 years on, he remains unnerved by what went on.He is finally ready to give his uncut account of the events which almost led to the demise of the club he loves.It’s a tale he tells with the aide of his immaculately organised, chartered accountant’s mind.He tells me: “Valentine’s Day 10 years ago was actually on a Tuesday.