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This is the man whose private security firm caused uproar by kicking three siblings out of their family home.

Ian Gordon is an ex-British soldier who served with the Royal Irish Regiment and the Ulster Defence Regiment.

He subsidises his military pension with work as the boss of his firm GS Agencies.

He was filmed at the home of a family his firm was sub-contracted to evict by a finance company.

The 49-year-old debt collector, from outside Lisburn, Co Antrim, contacted former colleagues a month ago urging them to travel to the Republic with a “name your price” offer.

But the job turned violent, leaving a number of people injured, vans burnt out and one dog dead.

One former colleague said: “Gordon phoned me a month ago after I hadn’t spoken to him in well over a year.

“He told me about the job in Roscommon and basically asked me to name my price. I told him where to go.

“On a Dublin job some years ago we got big money but it wasn’t worth it.

“He tried to employ legitimate security experts and ex-soldiers who knew what they were at.

“But he messed us up, refused to pay us properly and then came back snivelling for us to work for him again, despite still owing us money.

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“When he did pay us, it was cash-in-hand. The riskier the job, the higher he offered but we were never told of the risks. I was offered £250 a day.

“But none of us is up for it now. He seems to get all the last-minute jobs or those no one else wants to touch.

“He’s a joke in the security industry and he’s scraping the barrel with some of the people he’s relying on.

“You can see clearly from the way they conducted themselves that they went in hard and heavy, threatening and forceful.

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“They had absolutely no sense and look what happened. It was chaos and dangerous.

“If we had been involved, if my former colleagues had done that job it would have been done efficiently and with compassion for those involved.

“I just hope no one who legitimately wants to get into the security industry has got tied up with him.

“If they had, their reputation will be in tatters.

“Gordon thinks he’s Rambo, he thinks because he wore a uniform in Northern Ireland, that he’s untouchable.

“He seems to gets the jobs no other security firm wants so he’s subcontracted and he then subcontracts further to get people to do the dirty work.

“When good security staff won’t take the job, where do you go then?”