A CONVICTED killer armed with a knife and a firearm told his former girlfriend he was going to cut her new partner's head off, a court was told.

At the High Court in Glasgow, heard that 50-year-old Martin McCreadie went to Mirrors hair salon in Kings Place, Glasgow, where Linda Bullock worked on November 4, 2015.

Around 5pm as she entered the salon after being at nearby shops McCreadie said: 'hi' to her, before pulling a balaclava over his face and producing the weapons.

He followed her inside the salon but Ms Bullock told McCreadie to go away. The last time she had seen him was in June 2015 and there was no animosity between them.

Advocate depute Lynsey Rodger said the accused was holding what was thought to be a small black handgun in his left hand.

Defence counsel Tony Graham, representing McCreadie, said: “Although some people believed it was a gun my client had, it was not. It was the remnants of a broken claw hammer.'

McCreadie admitted committing a breach of the peace by presenting a knife and a handgun or imitation handgun at Ms Bullock, and a firearms offence and having an offensive weapon – a knife.

He also pleaded guilty to committing a breach of the peace at Fruin Place, Glasgow on March 9, 2015 and having two knives in his possession.

Sentence was deferred until next month.

In 1986 McCreadie and his brother Gary were convicted of killing 27-year-old Charles Madden in Glasgow by stabbing and slashing him 32 times and jailed for 12 years.