Gangland Glasgow: True Crime from the Streets

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He has no doubt about the role that poverty and social disintegration plays in young men being attracted to this lifestyle.

At a High Court hearing in Stirling, White, from Gartcosh, Lanarkshire, was sentenced to nine years and 10 months in prison for serious organised crime and firearms offences. 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 victim had been sitting at the bar with a friend, who was in the toilet when the attack took place.It was yet another grisly chapter in the battle for power between the Lyons and the Daniels, and shootings, firebombs, and hit-and-runs have all featured over the years. The author takes an in-depth look at the gripping evolution of the city's gangs from the days of the Penny Mob, through the extortion, slashings and street fighting of the Thirties to the smart-suited men of violence of the modern day. An international arrest warrant remains in place for 59-year-old as detectives believe he has travelled between the Netherlands and Spain. He was said to be second in command to gang kingpins James and Barry Gillespie, siblings from Rutherglen.

A source claims Lyons even wrote a letter to prosecutors, telling them he would not cooperate - and that Allen was not the man responsible. The French and Dutch law authorities later went on to smash the EncroChat phone network favoured by criminals.

It is too early in this investigation to comment further on motive, though we are considering the possibility that this was gang-linked. 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.

In the dawning days of the 21st century, Glasgow was still a city living down a fearsome reputation for crime. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. The former wife of a convicted gangland boss was accused of living a life of luxury on the multi-million-pound profits of his criminal activities. We aim to make Scotland a hostile and uncomfortable environment for anyone involved in this activity and prevent them from preying on our communities by bringing them to justice. After his release, his drug-fuelled violent lifestyle created conflict with the police and rival gangsters.

A classic example was when he and McPhee both stood trial on cannabis smuggling charges in 1998 at the High Court in Edinburgh. Kirstin White had pleaded not guilty to the allegations and was set to face trial before a jury at Airdrie Sheriff Court but the case was put on hold to await the outcome of the High Court proceedings against her ex. Such was his violent lifestyle and the number of enemies accumulated over the years, he frequently wore a stab vest for protection. Police Scotland never considers such cases closed and the passage of time is no barrier to the investigation of unresolved homicide cases.

This book traces the history of the city's gangland violence from the bloody turf wars, extortion and religious battles to the rise in drug dealing today. McTaggart pleaded guilty at the High Court in Edinburgh in June and was sentenced to four years and eight months behind bars at the High Court in Lanark on Monday. Clinton later bragged on a Channel 5 documentary that stabbing was “the easiest thing in the world”. The culmination of these events led to his sentencing of four years and eight months behind bars, as pronounced by the High Court in Lanark on a recent Monday. He had not previously been arrested due to a lack of evidence and his "whereabouts unknown" at the time.That evening one eyewitness told reporters: “It was about 20 minutes into the Scotland rugby game when there was a commotion.