Glasgow's Godfather: The Astonishing Inside Story of Walter Norval, the City's First Crime Boss

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The notorious XYY gang leader was carried by members of the Blue Angels biker club up the steps to Maryhill Crematorium. Weapons of choice were mostly knives but they also carried swords, hatchets, iron bars, and bricks and bottles if they were the only things at hand. The club's co-founder and former president Allan Morrison died from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on 29 January 2020, aged 77. Norval was a hard man, a gangster of the old school who ruled with iron yet always according to a code. WALTER NORVAL masterminded a string of violent armed robberies at post offices, banks and hospitals across the west of Scotland in 1976 and 1977.

High Court bombed by gang of heavies Reg McKay, Daily Record (19 October 2007) Archived 22 August 2023 at archive.They did develop a set of values, though - loyalty, trust and even teamwork, but maybe just going in the wrong direction. It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times.

GARY MOORE: A month before his death in 2010, Moore allegedly confessed to starting a fire in 1983 that killed six members of the Doyle family in Ruchazie, Glasgow, part of the infamous Ice Cream Wars. In May 2009, Belgium's Federal Police named the Blue Angels as one of four criminal motorcycle gangs operating in the country, along with the Bandidos, Hells Angels and Outlaws. She knew he blamed them and the man for his son’s murder and she wanted to hear the truth from the crime boss.

But Janette said: “Earlier this week I watched that documentary and in it a man makes reference to Lobban and his uncle Billy Manson. Robert Carlyle is to star as Ferris in The Ferris Conspiracy, based on the gangster’s book of the same name. The pals had been blasted to death and their blood-soaked bodies dumped in a car outside a Glasgow pub in 1991.

As the underworld grew it did nothing to halt the gangs of neds whose pitched battles were played out in the schemes. Their excesses were eventually curtailed by legendary cop, Sir Percy Sillitoe, who met violence with violence, bringing in tough new recruits to smash the razor-gangs and their hold on the city. In the early 60s the population was more than 50,000 and Jackson was one of only three cops covering the area. After serving part of his sentence in Scotland, Tervet was later moved to a prison in Liverpool and paroled in 1997 from an open prison in Gloucestershire in the south of England after 19 years behind bars.

The attack was allegedly carried out in retaliation for members of the Blue Angels being assaulted earlier that day. In March 1999, thirty-three members were sentenced to prison, received suspended sentences or were fined for possession of weapons or narcotics, assault and battery, theft, fraud, hostage-taking and criminal conspiracy, while two were acquitted.