Two more men held on Ayr killing
Another two men have been arrested over the 25- yearold murder of Ayr Indian restaurant boss Ansar Shah.
Cold case police swooped on a 53- year- old man in London and a man aged 59 somewhere in Ayrshire.
The development comes four months after Jagtar Singh, 51, of Romans- surIsere, France, appeared at Ayr Sheriff Court charged with Ansar’s murder and was remanded in custody.
Singh was transferred to Scotland after being arrested in Frankfurt on a European Arrest Warrant and awaits trial.
On Friday, police revealed the two new arrests and detectives are continuing enquiries.
Ansar, 36, was stabbed to death on October 4, 1993 in the Blackburn car park outside his restaurant.
Two years ago the Ayrshire Post revealed the murder inquiry was reopened after information was gleaned in an historic case from Aberdeen in which another Indian restaurant boss was killed.
Two other men were injured in the bloodbath and taken to Ayr Hospital. It happened in the Blackburn car park just feet from the then Armaan Brasserie Indian restaurant, now Ayr India.
Ansar, of Drongan, was a partner in the popular Armaan. He had two young children and his wife Linda was heavily pregnant with their third.
News reports at the time said the clash involved a group of Pakistanis and Indians.
Before the Armaan, Ansar managed the Shish Muhal in Alloway Street before working in the Ashoka in Whitletts and setting up on his own at the Shezan in the Sandgate.