Gangland Glasgow: True Crime from the Streets

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While serving 16 years, Blink met the torture-gang boss Eddie Richardson, the serial killer Archie Hall, notorious lifer Charles Bronson and members of the Krays.

Donnelly stressed that this successful prosecution serves as a potent message concerning authorities’ resolute determination to thwart serious organized crime. Martin Mullen and Gerald Gilmour’s plan was halted by police analysis of coded mobile phone messages on the EncroChat platform used widely by criminal gangs.He was arrested following an extensive investigation into his activities and we welcome his conviction and sentencing. Four months before his murder, McPhee had been shot in the face with a flare gun as he drank in Shettleston Juniors social club. He refused to leave his cell to go to court to give evidence, leading to a warrant being issued for his arrest.

Prosecutors claimed he struggled with him, kicked him and struck "him on his face with an unknown sharp implement to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement". Ryan Ferguson was sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow after admitting supplying cocaine, cannabis and benzocaine. Then in the September, Gordon Ross, 36, was stabbed outside Sheiling Bar in Shettleston and died in hospital that night. Flowers were laid outside a police cordon alongside a card which said: “To Lianne: Such a beautiful soul gone too soon!

The court heard that after the Gillespie brothers disappeared, White took over the gang, which operated on an "international scale" in countries including Italy, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, Russia and Brazil. Clinton went on trial at the High Court in Glasgow in April 2004, but the case collapsed after one day through a lack of evidence. The court was told that the homeowner became aware of the two heavies outside her home after a security camera was activated.