Gangland Glasgow: True Crime from the Streets

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This was observed by a prison officer who pressed the alarm for other officers to attend while the complainer was helped by other prisoners to try and stop the accused assaulting him further. Four of the 10 are underworld assassinations, with the execution of Glasgow gangster Frank McPhie among them. The 51-year-old was gunned down outside his home in Maryhill on May 10, 2000, when he was targeted by a sniper from the eighth floor of a neighbouring building. In March 2004 in Edinburgh three appeal judges finally quashed the convictions - following a 20-year campaign by both men - after hearing new evidence. During the course of the cell search a box was discovered to have a secret compartment and within this compartment was an iPhone.

Feared gangster Kevin Carroll, left, was killed by William Paterson in 2010. Photograph: Strathclyde police and Rex The gang were reputed to employ military precision in planning their raids, in the main evading capture.

As he drew the red curtain around the drug lord's coffin before the cremation, he said: "You wonder if, right now, Tam would say, 'Beam me up Scotty'." A Scottish Courts and Tribunal Service spokesperson said: "The court has advised that no further action was taken in respect of the [failure to appear] warrant [for Paul Lyons] and it would have been treated as withdrawn." John Carnochan was a detective chief superintendent in Strathclyde police and co-founded the world-renowned Violence Reduction Unit. He has no doubt about the role that poverty and social disintegration plays in young men being attracted to this lifestyle. “You can trace a line of inequality through the communities that the crime gangs operate in,” he said. “If you are a young man who knows he has no future in work but everywhere sees evidence of grossly conspicuous consumption, then of course he wants some of that for himself.

The footage moves on to a group of mothers, as they speak to the Easterhouse MP at the time, Hugh Brown. He had homes in Tenerife and he wanted to retire there, but too many people were still on to him as a key player. A statement of hope for locals, but one that may have been premature. Glasgow's problem with gang culture is one that had been going on for decades, perhaps most famously captured in the 1935 novel, No Mean City. While the drugs crisis is rightly being treated as a matter of public health, the Scottish Government cannot give an inch as these criminals grow rich from killing people, terrorising communities and using their wealth to poison mainstream society.” She added: “Court proceedings have commenced in 41, nine have been reported and are under ­consideration; 11 have concluded.”Last year he admitted having two illicit mobile phones in his cell at HMP Shotts and was caught trying to flush one down the toilet. Read More Related Articles