A convicted murderer has been blocked from becoming a private landlord.

In Scotland landlords have to be registered before operating, with consent being given or denied by the local authority.

Now Glasgow council says Morton Eadie – who is hoping to have his conviction as a murderer overturned at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh – does not meet the requirement of being a “fit and proper” to rent out property to the public. 

Eadie, 56, was sentenced last February to life imprisonment for the murder, with a stipulation that it should be 22 years before he can seek parole. 

Eadie was one of four men found guilty of what a court heard was a “planned execution” of a man as he sat in a car at traffic lights in Glasgow.

In the court case early this year the judge Lord Beckett said that people who were “prepared to engage in such meticulously planned and ruthlessly perpetrated assassination on the streets of our cities can expect substantial punishment”.

Reports of the court case say that police uncovered evidence which showed that Darren Eadie had started planning an attack for which he recruited his father Morton, and two other men.