It was like a scene from a 1970s Dirty Harry movie.
A gunshot had rung out from a giant .357 Magnum revolver and two men were lying on the floor, one dead and the other injured.Minutes later he was dead after a bullet passed into his chest and then through his heart and lungs, killing him immediately.As the gunman calmly walked from the pub, staff, horrified and terrified in equal measures, phoned the emergency services.
He had been convicted of murder in 1967, when only 19, for stabbing teenager John McMurdo to death in Buchanan Street.Now Burke had struck again but this time the deadly weapon of choice was a gun, not a knife.Burke was originally from Cumbernauld but had chosen to settle in the Southside. Now it looked as though the police action against him in previous weeks had been more than justified.
An informant said that Burke had been living in a two-bedroom flat in Waddell Court in the Gorbals with a woman.An early edition of a daily paper was lying beside him detailing the murder committed only a few hours earlier.It was not clear if Burke had bought the paper to glorify in his crimes or if he was worried about the consequences of what he had just done.
As he drove away, they passed the police cars which had just arrived at the scene of the fatal shooting.He had taken her to the Queen’s Park Cafe but she had left after he went to the toilet to leave the gun.When the case called at the High Court in Glasgow, Burke denied murdering Mr Nelson and the attempted murder of Mr Sweeney.
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