IT was the gangland execution in a pub full of children that showed nowhere was off limits in the city’s escalating drugs war.
Few noticed a young man in a grey hoodie and jeans walking into the Brewers Fayre owned bar around 5pm.screen and pulled out a six-inch blade.
That evening one eyewitness told reporters: “It was about 20 minutes into the Scotland rugby game when there was a commotion. The victim had been sitting at the bar with a friend, who was in the toilet when the attack took place.“It was a frenzied attack. It was terrifying. I helped the man into the recovery position, but he couldn’t speak as he had been stabbed through the throat.In the days afterwards the police met a wall of silence in their bid to identify the killer.
In the aftermath of his murder, it emerged McPhee was suspected of carrying out attacks on two high-profile Glasgow underworld figures in 2002. The hardman began wearing body armour when out of his house. But he thought he was safe in the Brewers Fayre. Protected by a bulletproof vest, McGraw however avoided severe injury, though he needed hospital treatment.
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.
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