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A MASKED traveller brandished machetes and showed off scars all over his body as he challenged reality TV star Paddy Doherty's family to a fight.

Raymond McIntyre, 33, donned a balaclava and held up blades as he goaded members of the Big Fat Gypsy Wedding star's clan - he has now been jailed for 29 months.

 Raymond McIntyre is seen here wearing a balaclava and brandishing a number of blades
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Raymond McIntyre is seen here wearing a balaclava and brandishing a number of bladesCredit: Pressteam Scotland Ltd
 He points at the camera as he challenges the other group to a fight
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He points at the camera as he challenges the other group to a fightCredit: Pressteam Scotland Ltd
 The traveller can we heard calling out family of TV star Paddy Doherty
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The traveller can we heard calling out family of TV star Paddy DohertyCredit: PA:Empics Entertainment
 He looms into the camera and yells as he goads the group into starting a fight
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He looms into the camera and yells as he goads the group into starting a fightCredit: Pressteam Scotland Ltd

McIntyre became embroiled in a feud between families and was seen shouting in the footage posted on YouTube: "I'm coming for you."

The other men are seen flexing their muscles and calling their rivals "dirty vermin" as horses trot by in the background.

The video was filmed in Douglas, Lanarkshire, at the "king of the road" horse and cart race meeting in May.

It has been viewed more than 24,000 times as the two groups threaten each other and pull out knives.

McIntyre appeared at Lanark Sheriff Court and admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive manner, shouting and swearing, and brandishing machetes.

He also admitted possessing the machetes and was jailed for 29 months by Sheriff Derek O'Carroll.

 At one point in the video he turns to show off his scars on his back
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At one point in the video he turns to show off his scars on his backCredit: Pressteam Scotland Ltd

The 16-minute video features five men challenging rivals to a fight before bare-chested McIntyre appears wearing a balaclava with four weapons tucked into his shorts.

At one point he turns round to show scars on his back and lifts the balaclava to show the left side of his face.

One man describes Doherty, who won Celebrity Big Brother in 2011, of telling lies about his fighting prowess.

Police were alerted to the video a week after it was posted online and McIntyre was arrested.

McIntyre's not guilty plea to a charge that he uttered threats of violence including threats to murder Tommy Joyce was accepted by prosecutors.

Sandy Morrison, defending, said the recording of videos appeared to be a fad among the travelling community where they issued online challenges.

 McIntyre admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive manner, shouting and swearing, and brandishing machetes.
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McIntyre admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive manner, shouting and swearing, and brandishing machetes.Credit: Pressteam Scotland Ltd

He added squabbles had previously been settled privately but were now been seen on the internet.

In 2009, McIntyre, a labourer, was jailed for six years after he and four other men attacked a funeral party in Fife with weapons including machetes and knives.

The pre-planned attack left two brothers, also travellers, with "horrific" injuries.

In July, McIntyre's associate James McPhee was jailed for three years for using YouTube videos to organise a bare knuckle fight at Europe's largest gypsy gathering.

McPhee, 43, goaded rival Alan Tunney with a series of clips posted online in the days leading up to the historic Appleby horse fair in Cumbria, last year.

McPhee, of Larkhall, Lanarkshire, threatened to rip Tunney's head off and urged him to bring other men along for a large-scale fight.

Tunney, 33, who is part of a travelling family from Doncaster, responded with videos of his own and has also been jailed for three years.

Yesterday we reported nine members of a "merciless" traveller clan who ran a modern-day slave labour camp were jailed for a total of almost 80 years.

And last month a group of 30 travellers stunned pubgoers when they drove 12 carriages to a packed Covent Garden pub and demanded water for their horses.



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