Bradley Welsh shooting: Trainspotting 2 star revealed ‘my gang past is always with me’ days before he was gunned down in brutal murder
Former footie casual Welsh, 48, was ambushed as he walked back to his flat at around 8.30pm last night
TRAINSPOTTING star Bradley Welsh revealed how his gangland past was "always with him" in an interview just weeks before he was violently gunned down in Edinburgh.
The hardman-turned-actor, 48, was ambushed as he walked to his flat at around 8.30pm last night.
Medics scrambled to save him but the former footie hooligan passed away.
An interview with Welsh on Edinburgh Evening News hauntingly told how the ex-casual accepted his crime-filled past would never leave him.
But he explained how he would never apologise for his past - even though he regretted his part in the underworld.
He told : "Everybody knows my back story; about going to prison and using boxing to transform my life, but when I was in prison it destroyed my mum and I made her a promise.
He played gangland boss Doyle in 2017 hit T2 — who owns seedy saunas in Edinburgh and puts the frighteners on Jonny Lee Miller’s Renton and Ewan McGregor’s Sick Boy when they plan to open a rival brothel.
Police Scotland have confirmed a has been launched into Welsh's death.