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

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Gangs of hooligans who had previously been looking for their next fight were now looking for their next profit. But the next morning – the day of Fat Boy’s funeral – their bodies were found dumped in a car outside the Cottage Bar in Shettleston.

Ewing was arrested shortly afterwards in possession of a hammer and an item of clothing bearing the slogan: ""Blue Angels North East".In an unprecedented situation 13 men appeared in four separate trials accused of armed raids on hospital wages, banks and a Post Office van. The pictures stand out like scars, creating an enduring image that Glasgow is only now beginning to shake off. Around twenty masked Blue Angels members armed with hammers and metal bars allegedly tried to gain entry to the clubhouse of a rival club in the Moredun area of Edinburgh, on 11 August 2018.

Many of the houses were derelict and unoccupied, including the basement where Andrea was eventually found. Along with everyone involved in the case, they knew our evidence, the various witnesses' identifications and the small pieces of forensic evidence was not sufficient to get convictions. Dressed in pinstriped style, he controlled his foot soldiers with fearsome fists and planned robberies with the attention to detail of a military general. There are claims that "Blue" stands for "bastards, lunatics, undesirables and eccentrics", although this is almost certainly a backronym and the name more simply originates from the colour of the Saltire. Labelled razor gangs, after their weapon of choice, they literally carved out a new name for Glasgow, that of 'scar city.Norval, from Possil, started his criminal career as a boy in the 1940s and 50s running errands for Glasgow’s top gangsters. Bobby had told him he was meeting his friend William Lobban, who he had sheltered in the past, and he was just giving him a lift. As the years went by the drug problem escalated and a heroin epidemic, along with a harsh Thatcher government, had started to bite and ravage areas like Possil and The Calton. Anderson and O’Mahoney start with the elder statesmen of the Glasgow scene and move through the main players of more than 70 years of crime, taking in the Arthur Thompson years, the notorious Ferris family, and the Glasgow ice-cream wars.