The 'jeweller' behind Glasgow's criminal underworld
IT was the 19th-century American writer Mark Twain who coined the saying: “Behind every successful man, there is a woman.”Tam McGraw was said to have amassed a personal fortune of £30 million through his criminal activities over a 40-year period.
McGraw then returned to Glasgow – where he set up the notorious Barlanark team, who carried out a series of post office robberies across In the early 1980s, McGraw, on the advice of Margaret, began to focus on other interests including ice cream vans, which were an increasingly lucrative business in Glasgow’s sprawling housing estates.However, for criminals, they also provided a means for selling stolen goods, drugs and laundering money.The conflict between traders had resulted in a series of assaults, shootings and vehicles being vandalised.
A month later, two suspects for his murder – Joe Hanlon, 23, and Bobby Glover, 31 – were found dead in Hanlon’s car outside the Cottage Bar in Shettleston. It was the same day as the funeral of young Arthur and seen as revenge by his father for his son’s murder. To others, it meant he had a licence to commit crime by the police in return for information on other lawbreakers.
The gangster died aged 55 in Glasgow Royal Infirmary in July 2007 after collapsing at his home in Mount Vernon from a heart attack. The book also gave a humorous insight into the relationship the McGraws enjoyed with the police in the early days.
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