Mr Findlay stated Billy Joe had been armed with a blade, there was a struggle and Ferguson got him to drop the weapon. Regulars were watching the Scotland rugby team play Wales at Murrayfield and the incoming football results. Robert Jeffrey is a former managing editor at SMG and co-author of the highly successful Herald Clyde series of books with Ian Watson. I helped the man into the recovery position, but he couldn’t speak as he had been stabbed through the throat.

Day Itinerary for Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Edinburgh might be the most famous city in Scotland, but Glasgow is actually a bigger city. In Scotland’s Wildest Bank Robber, Blink provides an eye-opening account of how he survived gangland warfare, prisons, stabbings and bombs. McTaggart’s prominence within this illicit network further heightened the significance of his conviction. She contacted the police when she realised they had slashed the tyres of a vehicle parked outside and ripped the CCTV system from the wall to remove evidence of their visit.Detectives investigating the killing described the crime scene as one of the worst they had encountered, with the victim's throat cut through to his spine and a knife embedded just below his left eye. Lyons, 42, refused to go to court to give evidence and wrote to prosecutors to say Allen had nothing to do with the attack on February 21, 2021.

Police Scotland never considers such cases closed and the passage of time is no barrier to the investigation of unresolved homicide cases. The teacher also said the attacker walked with his face fixed downwards, and left the same way, after picking up the murder weapon from the floor. A knife found at the flat was described as being "potentially responsible" for causing the fatal stab wound. It’s time they started to ask themselves why young men in these communities are seeking it in crime.Police Scotland will not allow criminals and organised crime groups to profit from other people’s misery anywhere in the country. However, he is most well know for his run-away bestseller, Glasgow's Hard Men, which explores the battle between the city's criminals, gangs and godfathers and those responsible for fighting crime. During filming for Danny Dyer's Deadliest Men , a bomb was discovered under Blink’s car and the terrified camera crew members fled from Scotland.

The case of Gerard McTaggart highlights the unwavering commitment of law enforcement to dismantling criminal networks and eradicating money laundering operations that enable their activities.

Ferguson, 30, of Inverness, pled guilty at a hearing last month to being involved in serious organised crime between June 2019 and September 2021. That evening one eyewitness told reporters: “It was about 20 minutes into the Scotland rugby game when there was a commotion. It was so big that it bulged in his pocket and was spotted by guards when he was acting suspiciously ahead of exercise at HMP Glenochil.

They refuse to cooperate with the authorities, even against their sworn enemies, and Lyons was adamant he was adhering to the code. Earlier on Wednesday, local residents paid tribute to Ms Gordon as police officers and forensics teams continued their investigation at the scene. Ferguson sustained a head injury and Billy Joe Bates sustained a number of injuries including a fatal deep stab wound to the chest. He was arrested at Glasgow Airport in June last year after arriving back from a holiday in Thailand with his partner.

Working with Professor Charlie Frowd at the University of Central Lancashire, Police Scotland investigators have generated a composite image of Ferguson, using innovative software. Allen carried out the frenzied killing just weeks after being released from a six month sentence for assault, after downing a cocktail of drink and drugs. Earlier this month, Craig Gallagher, reputed to be on the opposite side of Carroll and his Daniels clan associates, was hunted down by unknown assailants to a derelict property in Lanarkshire.