It sits permanently in Edinburgh, and travels on circuit throughout Scotland. Senior continued to struggle, so Fraser He penned an 18-month loan but that has been cut short. At that time political and religious tensions were at their highest and membership to some of the biggest gangs was well into the hundreds. However, because prisoners were shipped from England there is often further information in the Home Office records at The National Archives. Before this assignment, I'd only worked in the Middle East and in Africa, so I arrived in Glasgow as if I had landed in the desert: A red car might as well have been a camel for all I knew. investigating one of the earlier assaults heard gurgling coming from one of the The policemen were trying to clear a path for us through the shocked and horrified groups of people Women in headscarves and aprons held each other and cried uncontrollably. made a second appear- attempted murder of Mrs ance at Banff Sheriff Court Henrietta 2023 Findmypast Newspaper Archive Limited - Proudly presented by Findmypast in partnership with the British Library, A Findmypast company - also visit: 'The Register of the Privy Council' for 1545-1691 is published in 35 volumes. Werecommend that you contactthe Historical Search Roomto check the location of records before visiting. Sussex. Celtic hero Scott Brown hands Fleetwood 'absolutely unbelievable' tag after late FA Cup heartbreak. November 2001: The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission refers the case to the appeal court for the third time. From the razor gang days of the 30s, through to the young teams of the 90s and 00s it seemed like almost every square yard in Glasgow had its own army of young men willing to stab or be stabbed in its honour. Andrew Doyle, nicknamed Fat Boy, was an 18-year-old who worked as a driver for the Marchetti brothers' ice cream truck business. Campbell described Love during the trial as "a desperado" who had been willing to be a witness, pointing the finger at (in Campbell's words) "any one of us" to avoid going to prison himself, having been granted bail in exchange for testimony. But gradually Glasgows last real unique sub-culture started to die out. ever to be hanged in Glasgow, the second last in Scotland before Henry John Rollins that they had been convicted of an atrocious murder and, consequently, A gang of teenagers carrying machetes and swords to a gang fight captured on CCTV in 2006. Glaswegians are being urged to check their change as 'rare' coins continue to be sold on marketplaces such as eBay for hundreds of pounds - and in some cases, five figures. Michael (alluding to similarities with the 1960 Anthony Miller case)They It is home to the most wonderful array of independent, local, artistic businesses in the city and possibly the rest of Scotland. Do you think that being a foreigner helped you? the Sunday morning boat-train from Belfast accompanied by Keith, Noble and two Please see the prison registers research guide for more details. At the The Crown fought against the release of the paperwork, on the grounds that the Commission had not justified it gaining access to the paperwork and that the papers were in the same category as paperwork that the Commission had already been denied access to by Scottish Executive's Justice Department. Murphy, a grandfather, died of stab wounds at a Christmas party in his daughter's h o m e at 54 Rogganfield East Kilbride murder: husband charged 1111 MINION') JOHN PIRO:, -a-L 37, of 44 Albany, East Kilbride, appeared in private at Hamilton Sheriff Court yesterday charged with murdering his wife. Burgh records are not indexed. a list of everyone who had committed a criminal offence in or around the park, Fraction of true value. Title: GLASGOW 1980 Reference number: 0974 Date: 1971 Director: d. Oscar Marzaroli. The victims sister told press outside the trial: These Records of these are normally called 'criminal and quasi-criminal roll books' or 'records of summary trials'. Lawyers acting for Natalie McGarry, who was elected as . Solicitors for Campbell and Steele then took the case to the then newly created Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, which took up the case. innocence throughout the trial at the High Court in Glasgow, despite this the Others may be found among private collections, and in sheriff court (SC) and burgh (B) records. Kings Cross was a place for born-and-bred locals, clubs and crime . not return that evening, she only made enquiries when she read about the The published volumes are fully indexed and available for consultation in the Historical Search Room, as well as in good reference libraries. Donald Dewar refused to refer the case, because he did not "believe that they present[ed] grounds for a referral of the case to the appeal court". Fraser produced a revolver from inside his coat and threatened the older man Queens Park They are burned into the memories of generations of Glaswegians: that shot of Paul Ferris standing outside the High Court declaring victory while a posse of angry cops looked on, helpless. attempted .. Divorcee in murder riddle MURDER squad detectives are puzzled by the brutal murder of a young Asian divorcee, .. The police stated that a photocopied AZ street map of Glasgow, on which the Doyle house in Bankend St was marked with an X, was found in Campbell's flat. Administrative records for Scottish prisons (HH12) occasionally contain references to individual prisoners, and there are also a small number of prisoner files (HH15), details of which are found on the catalogue. Ironically, you are more likely to find information about someone who committed a crime than about a respectable, law-abiding citizen. The 76-year-old Preston's tone, who was born in Govan, icon of Glasgow's shipbuilding heritage on the River Clyde, is matter of fact. 365 Wishaw, Lanarkshire, Scotland 248 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland 159 Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland 150 Airdrie, Lanarkshire, . We have found a body in Queens Park. Thus began perhaps The thought that someone would to want to fight someone purely because they stay in another area of the same city is now thankfully a completely alien and absurd concept to most of todays generation. Because I did not respect the rules of the assignment, these pictures were never published. be transported to Glasgow as soon as possible. attempted to force him to the ground. They record the name of the convict and where, when and for how many years he or she was sentenced. take great delight in the proceedings, often laughing and joking with each Staffordshire. Despite his nickname, Lord-Haw-Haw was no aristocrat. homophobic attack. immediately flee to Ireland where they were later apprehended by police. Special price. 48 year old John Cremin, had been battered around the head with a wooden plank In court they sat together in the docks appearing to For some cases more than 100 years old it is possible to identify records by searching ourcatalogue under the name of the victim of the crime. [3][6], What ensued was a twenty-year court battle by Campbell and Steele, one of the more contentious in Scottish legal history, and, in the later words of Campbell's solicitor, Aamer Anwar, "twenty years of hunger strikes, prison breakouts, demonstrations, political pressure, solitary isolation, prison beatings, [and] legal fight after legal fight". * We take your privacy seriously. Although much of that description is factual, there is a far darker side to the country. 1993: Steele escapes from prison and stages a protest by. Most men and women who appeared before the Council were of some social standing, rather than ordinary criminals, but the Council also heard cases of people accused of witchcraft and seditious practices. Coming back from the Middle East, it was gift in comparison to men armed with Kalashnikovs banning me from photographing them. Post Views: 18,003. . Case papers not catalogued in this way are stored according to the year and location of the trial, and it is necessary to search through them to find individual records. and left for dead under a bush in Queens Park Recreation Ground, his body would Died: 6 January, 2023. just some quiet reflection. Although Mrs Senior was anxious when her son did The court of appeal has decided in fact the jury was wrong. 10 positive effects of population growth on economic development He would escape unharmed but suffered badly from shock. I suppose I saw things differently from other photographers. This page was last edited on 28 February 2023, at 05:43. It then went to court to obtain further Crown paperwork relating to the case, including government correspondence. Even a summer job as a server could put you in danger: On September 9, 1989, The Glasgow Herald reported that while serving . You may also find statements by the accused and other papers produced as evidence, but case papers do not include transcripts of trials. At 02:00, the door on the landing outside the top-floor flat in Ruchazie where Doyle lived with his family was doused with petrol and set alight. in 2008 Detective Chief Inspector Derek Robertson heard the now familiar words the police were able to publicise that the deceased was missing several items, The issue got so bad in Easterhouse that Sixties crooner Frankie Vaughan even made an intervention, launching a knife amnesty in the area and bringing rival gang members round the table to talk it out. On The Railways in Scotland in the 1980s and 1990s. Selected entries have been published in the 'Book of the Old Edinburgh Club', edited by J Fairley (volumes 4- 6, 8, 9, 11 and 12). Without much The newspaper contained the news that Senior was dead, and the four decided to It involved drugs, arson, murder, and ice cream. 1. Lord Gill, Lord MacLean, and Lord Macfadyen quashed the convictions as a result of hearing new evidence and because of what they stated to be significant misdirection of the jury by the judge at the original trial. Lord Clarke ruled in favour of the Commission being granted access to the paperwork, stating that "The commission [has] a statutory obligation to carry out a full, independent and impartial investigation into alleged miscarriages of justice" and that "Legislation under which [it acts] was clearly designed to give the widest powers to perform that duty. had been fatal, Miller and Denovan continued their string of robberies undeterred. Due to the severity of the injuries to 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. every bone in his face broken, he was only discovered when a police man Albert James Fraser, James Rollins, Gladys Renton and Elizabeth Stewart should Two brothers died of cancer, one of heart complications . of the case were not revealed until the start of trial which began on the 3. court how he was used as bait, he would wait until he was approached by a much could take place Fraser and Rollins appeared, confronting Senior, who hanging. violent muggings in the area, a local cruising spot, but due to the fact * We take your privacy seriously. The pictures stand out like scars, creating an enduring image that Glasgow is only now beginning to shake off. Police officers are searching for 15-year-old Jamie Lea McCall who has gone missing from Airdrie and Kal Clarke who has been reported missing from East Kilbride. Belfast detectives and two female prison wardens. murder on his person, no doubt kept to validate his frequent boasting, it was when Around 9pm, White met Henry Senior in Hope Street. On hearing this, the two men were reported to have turned to [1], The defence rejected the Crown's evidence during the twenty-seven day trial, and afterwards Campbell continued to assert that he had been "fitted up" by both Love and the police. We couldn't understand one another much, but it wasn't a problem: We didn't need words to communicate. The brutal rape of a woman on the streets of Glasgow later judged too traumatised to give evidence against her three attackers in court. Four of us went to St Sixtus Primary . They were extremely kind, so I had a lot of freedom. Witchcraft was a criminal offence between 1563 and 1736. "[10][11], The Commission decided that the case should be referred back to the appeal court. But now I see how these images show the violence of the eraespecially the closure of industrial zones and mass unemployment. The records are mainly in a separate series (our reference RH11) some of which have been digitised and are available on Virtual Volumes in our search rooms. Aberdeen Press and Journal It was a system that worked for over a year, Crime writer David Leslie would say of the case: 'What would save Jean from being hung, as much of the public called for, was that by 1961 politicians and most of the public had lost the stomach for marching a female to the scaffold.' One of the bodies, four year old Marjorie Hughes, had died on impact and had been mercifully covered by a blanket by onlookers, but miraculously the other four children were still alive, though gravely injured. The Light Blues are in the market for a new No1 with veteran Allan McGregor expected to leave in the summer when his contract expires with reports claiming a move would cost in the region of 3.5million. Their plans were halted when they saw something strange in the road. Freddie Woodman on Rangers' radar as Michael Beale 'eyes up' deal to take Preston star to Ibrox. James Sands breaks Rangers exit silence as New York City deal signed despite European 'opportunities'. Paisley dad's leg 'explodes' when he is hit by stray firework at party. went to take 10 from a box on the mantelpiece, but his mother warned him about However, the High Court of Justiciary records include material on Jacobite treason trials, 1748-9 (JC7). While they were doing so, two young women arrived stating not only that they Some even recalled one occasion when The local sheriff courts deal with both criminal and civil cases. Labelled razor gangs, after their weapon of choice, they literally carved out a new name for Glasgow, that of 'scar city.'. Details of proceedings against covenanters also appear in the records of the High Court of Justiciary (JC). of the pair had delivered the fatal blow that night. The following finding aids are available in theHistorical Search Room. [1][3][4], In 1980s Glasgow, several ice cream vendors also sold drugs and stolen goods along their routes, using the ice cream sales as fronts. attention. thereafter a search of the surrounding parkland commenced. Not to be confused with, Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, "Ice cream wars papers "closer to release", "Expert casts doubt on police evidence Officers in Ice Cream Wars case used same words", "Ice cream trial judge slams appeal verdict", "Ice Cream Wars Thomas 'TC' Campbell dies", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glasgow_ice_cream_wars&oldid=1142043250, Organised crime conflicts in the United Kingdom, Short description is different from Wikidata, CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. A survey by Glasgow Live . "[13][14], Campbell called for a fresh investigation of the murder of the Doyle family, accusing Tam McGraw both of the original murders and of instigating a campaign over 20 years to ensure that Campbell remained in jail and was silenced, including repeated attempts on Campbell's life. In addition to the main court papers (JC39) is a series of 115 bundles of papers relating to actions against covenanters, 1679-1688. Photo: tspl. A witness, William Love, stated that he had overheard Campbell, Steele, and others in a bar discussing how they would teach "Fat Boy" Doyle a lesson by setting fire to his house. Johnpaul Garvie is calling for a ban on the sale of fireworks to the public after being seriously injured when a firework misfired as he celebrated the new year with friends. In 1980, French photojournalist Raymond Depardon was commissioned by a British newspaper to shoot a story in Glasgow. causes, he had been wearing a cap that night which hid the severity of his The explanation as to why I gave evidence is this: The police pressurised me to give evidence against Campbell, who they clearly believed was guilty of arranging to set fire to Doyle's house. Ile isaccused of attacking Ind robbing Mr Brown Three charged with murder THREE people appeared was made and they were at Hamilton Sheriff Court remanded for further on Wednesday charged inquiries. The next big major epidemic of gang violence came around in the Sixties and Seventies as new housing schemes like Castlemilk in the south, Easterhouse in the East and Drumchapel in the north were built to ease overcrowding in places like The Gorbals. Aged 22, disappeared around 15 May 1980. Kentucky murders 1962 - 2008. Murdered newsboy I murdered newsboy, man tells court A 32-year-old man yesterday publicly .. Murder-bid charge THE grandfather of murder victim Rosie Palmer (3) was yesterday charged with the. A serial sex offender has been found guilty of murdering a mother-of-11 more than 36 years ago. 9 firemen were killed in the Cheapside Street bonded warehouse fire on 28 March 1960. . The four arrived at 5.30am on Clifford had performed studies where he tested people in Scotland and England on their ability to recall a statement that they had just heard. Agnes Donnelly was found with a battered and bruised face by her shocked daughter who hadn't been told anything about an incident by the care home tasked with looking after her. which he handed to White, the agreed fee for the sexual liaison. Queens Park with no intention of committing murder, only assault and robbery, In Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1980s, was a time now known as the ice cream truck wars. These contain lists of the accused and depositions of prisoners and witnesses. recent Homicide Act of 1957, only the person whose hands had dealt the fatal The Glasgow gang phenomenon first made national headlines nearly 80 years ago with teams of youths from overcrowded slums in The Gorbals, Bridgeton and The Calton clashing regularly in the city centre. 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