SAS hero who gunned down ex in jealous murder feared to be back in Scotland

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A Scots SAS hero who executed his girlfriend with a Gulf War machine gun is feared to have returned here after being released early.

Veteran Thomas Shanks was jailed for life in April 2000 for the murder of Vickie Fletcher outside a pub in Castleford, Yorkshire.

Nurse Vickie, 21, was gunned down by the former soldier on May 7, 1998, after she dumped him for a former patient. The Glaswegian, then 47, and holder of the Military Medal, fled to his home city where he was captured.

It is feared he may have returned to the city and adopted a new identity after winning early release from an English prison.A source said: “Shanks is a professional soldier and used to adopting a new identity and keeping a low profile.