Gangland Glasgow: True Crime from the Streets

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At the end of the day the Licensee went out with a whimper rather than the bang of an assassin's gun as some had suspected. In a Facebook post on Monday, it said it was closed for the rest of the day due to "unforeseen circumstances". Police Scotland spokesperson said enquiries are ongoing. McGraw was laid to rest the following month and around 300 mourners gathered at Daldowie Crematorium, near Glasgow. Elaine Rae, defending, said: "The complainer had threatened him on numerous occasions and Mr Grady knew that by assaulting him, that would cause this to stop.

The latest surge in gang-related violence has occurred at a time when Police Scotland is suffering a crisis of leadership. Last week it was revealed that the second highest ranked police officer in Scotland, Iain Livingstone, was also standing down amid reports that the entire senior police executive is set to move aside. Senior officers are also under investigation for illegal gathering of data against former police colleagues and a handful of investigative journalists. Sign up to our Glasgow Live nostalgia newsletters for more local history and heritage content straight to your inbox

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But where did it originate? How did a group of teenagers from The Calton come up with such an iconic name that would go on to define the area for so long? How did 'Tongs ya bass' become the unofficial motto for gang fights in Scotland even being immortalised in TV and film including the Glasgow movie Small Faces. He had homes in Tenerife and he wanted to retire there, but too many people were still on to him as a key player. An underworld source said: "He's been left with a good few stitches and that will serve as a constant reminder of what he's done. It's far easier to get someone to do that kind of job than you think these days.

We all came up here with good intentions, thinking we’re giving our children a better chance, we’re moving out of the city itself. Three years later, a car mounted the pavement outside his home and ran him over. Again, Arthur survived and refused to make any statement to the police. In 1989, Arthur's daughter, Margaret, died of a drugs overdose. Two years later Fat Boy was gunned down outside The Ponderosa just six hours after coming home from prison on weekend leave. He died in his father's arms. Carroll ran a team of thugs who staged 'alien abductions' of rival dealers, many of whom worked for the Lyons. They were so called because victims, usually found wandering in a state of semi-undress, would claim they could not remember anything afterwards.Three months after McGraw's death his older brother Francis McGrow was murdered in his own front room in Springboig. In 2009 Margaret married a friend of her husband, ironically the son of a former police officer at Bothwell Bridge Hotel in Lanarkshire. They honeymooned in the Caribbean but the marriage ended in 2012. In the 30’s the name had evolved to San Toi with another Calton razor gang The Calton Entry also appearing on the scene. We share live crime news and exclusive court stories as well as features and columns on historical cases, keeping our readers informed and updated across the country.



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