Meet the hardest men from a country where the streets are the most dangerous and the gangsters and criminals are the scariest in Britain. These faces have seen it all: the guns, the knives, the fights and the toughest prisons. This book will take you deep inside the rough, mad, bad, drug-infested, cut-throat, back-stabbing world of the Scottish prison system, bringing to light the last fifty years of infamous incidents that have taken place behind bars in some of the highest security prisons. With a frightening in-depth look at the most notorious prisons and institutions and the most daunting and fearsome of inmates, this compulsive guide covers them all from murderers to armed-robbers, a female crime clan with a family feel to it and some of the most notorious cases in Scottish criminal history.
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Jimmy Holland & Stephen Richards. Scottish Hard Bastards
Dedication
CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
INTRODUCTION
The A to S of Scottish Prisons
Solitary Dangermen. MALKIE LEGGAT
JOHN McPHEE
‘DINGUS’ McGHEE
JOE BOYLE
TOMMY GORDON
‘PORKIE’ O’ROURKE
ANDY McCANN
Scottish Folklore Hard Bastards
OSCAR SLATER
ROBERT MEECHAN
JOHNNY RAMENSKY
ARTHUR THOMPSON
PADDY MEEHAN
WALTER SCOTT ELLIS
WILLIAM ‘POKEY’ TURNER
JAMES ‘JIMMY’ BOYLE
WULLIE BENNET
RONNIE AND BAT NEASON
FRANK McPHEE
‘NELLIE’ DRUMMOND
DUSTER MORRISON
ALAN BROWN
‘JOHNNY BOY’ STEELE
DAVIE COTTERAN
JOHN GALLAGHER
BILLY FERRIS
KENNY KELLY
HUGH COLLINS
THOMAS McCULLOCH AND ROBERT MONE
JAMES CROSBIE
Scottish Hard Female ‘BIG MAGS’
The Taxman. BRIAN COCKERILL
Nut Jobs
STEVIE ANDERSON
GARY SIMPSON
‘LINKY’ LYNAS
BABA KILPATRICK
Loch Ness Monsters
PETER THOMAS ANTHONY MANUEL
THOMAS WEST HAMILTON
DENNIS NILSEN
IAN BRADY
ROBERT BLACK
BIBLE JOHN?
GAVIN McGUIRE
‘HONEYMONSTER’
WILLIAM BEGGS
ROY ARCHIBALD HALL
Bongo’s Madness
BONGO McKLEISH
Hard as Nails ‘HAMMY’ HAMILTON
STEWART BOYD
GARY MOORE
BRIAN BEUFFORD TAGGART
MICK REZELLI
JED MALLOY
Years, Years, Years ‘TOSSO’ KINNING
BLAVA
ROBERT O’HARA
GOGS SMITH
JIM WILKINSON
HARRY MITCHELL
STEVIE NISBET
ALAN DOWELL
RONNIE ALDRED
JOCK DONALDSON
ADGER
ANDY WALKER
THE LOCKERBIE BOMBER
RICARDO BLANCO
Great Escapers. JOE STEELE
DANNY
MICK HEALY
JIM WILLIAMSON
JOHN CROLL
Wildcards. SHUG McGREGOR
TERRY CURREN
JIM CULLEN
GORDON FLETT
DICKY PARVIN
ARCHIE STEIN
THE McALLISTER BROTHERS
DON AND PIZZA FRATTI
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FURTHER READING
Copyright
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For those who died behind bars
Chapter 1 Solitary Dangermen
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He had only been out of prison for four days when he murdered a rival gangster who used to laugh at him when he was a kid. It was the first time that Joe had seen his rival in over ten years. He received a life sentence for his troubles and was put straight into the seg unit in Barlinnie, before being transferred to the Shotts maneater, along with some forty or more other hardened prisoners who were doing their rules (segregation punishment) for their part in a riot or a hostage-taking or a stabbing or some other incident. The forty-odd prisoners teased and taunted Joe at the windows, day in, day out. They never did so to his face.
Joe made it his personal goal in life to go to war with every single one of them and that is exactly what he did. He would make sure that he got let out to use the phone; it was an excuse to catch whichever hard man was going to a visit that night – to get there, they had to walk past Joe when he was on the phone.
