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Rugster

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I used to drink in a pub owned by one of the most notorious criminal families in Scotland and regularly drank in the boss of that families company before someone decided to murder him by shooting him up the arse outside said pub.

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I used to drink in a pub owned by one of the most notorious criminal families in Scotland and regularly drank in the boss of that families company before someone decided to murder him by shooting him up the arse outside said pub.

 

Did the killer use a Browning?

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My dad's pal Hamish bought a cooker (or possibly a fridge freezer) off of Nat Fraser shortly after Mr Fraser's wife disappeared. When he was all over the papers in the following months and years during his subsequent trials, Hamish insisted he was a nice guy.

 

Used to work in a law firm that referred business to a mortgage broker, one of their staff, a guy who'd gone to my school and used to work with my mum in a chippy, disappeared suddenly. It later transpired he'd been a gun runner for the IRA and was in hiding.

 

My mum's pal is married to a chap who had his "business partner" murdered.

 

The law firm I worked at did a lot of work for the various Glasgow and Greater Glasgow security firms who were all under pressure from the police and SIA as they were fronts for organised crime, so I got to meet lots of lovely chaps like David Lyons, Bobby "The Devil" Dempster etc. This also got the firm a mention in The Digger.

 

My dad and some of his brothers were local hoods akin to gangsters about four decades ago and eventually had to go on the run to Leicester, then had to go on the run from Leicester as someone was skewered with a pitchfork. He met my mum while he was in hiding from some gang beef or other and did a brief spell behind bars in his teens.

 

Went to school with / grew up with / know / have met loads of folk who've been in the papers for one reason or another.

 

Your dad probably knows my family....

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more of an acquaintance that knew him.

 

My real job was in the PF's office in Hamilton at the time and I used work in the Cooper Stand at fir park. There was a boy called George Bushnell that manned the corner area between the cooper and main stands. .

 

I turn up to Fir Park on the Saturday to be treated with "here's the guy we have been waiting on, he will know what's happened. What has George done?" and BAM like that it all fell into the place. There was a guy called George that had been a custody that week for murder. Something to do with a guy touching him up while they were both pi$$ed, so he stabbed him and then tried to chop him up in the bath. It was all over the local press and BBC at the time but i just never made the link until i turned up there.

 

Can't find too much on the web about it outside theses

 

POLICE found a man's body in a bathroom of a blood-soaked house with his head and leg almost sawn off, a murder trial heard yesterday.

The High Court in Glasgow heard that blood spattered the walls and floors and soaked carpets in the flat where 20-year-old Martin Milligan lay dead. Bloody fingerprints were also found on the living room wall.

The jury was played an interview with George Bushnell, 32, in which he told police: "I tried to cut off his head and his right leg with a saw but I stopped when I realised it was crazy.

"I didn't have the stomach for it."

He said he had rowed with Milligan after they drank Buckfast, cider and vodka. He then stabbed him twice in self-defence after the deceased man attacked him with a knife.

After attempting to dismember the victim, Bushnell then dragged the body to the bathroom of his flat, in Graham Street, Wishaw, Lanarkshire and went to the police two days later.

Bushnell's sister, Lynn Bushnell, 30, of Motherwell, Lanarkshire, told how, the day after Milligan, of Wishaw, died, her brother borrowed a hacksaw from their parents.

Pathologist Dr Marjorie Black told the court that Milligan's neck and throat had been sawn through to his spine. She said this happened after he died and that he had bled to death when one of two stab wounds cut through an artery in his chest.

Milligan's dad, Joseph, 43, told the jury that the last time he saw his son, who had a mental age of 13, he was going to a pet shop .

Mr Milligan said: "He wanted to see pet rats that had arrived in the shop and he left home very happy.

"Two days later, we were told he was dead."

Bushnell denies murdering Milligan and a second charge of trying to sever his head and leg in a bid to conceal the crime. The trial continues.

 

A LONER who stabbed a young man with a mental age of 13 to death was jailed for life yesterday.

The High Court in Glasgow heard how evil George Bushnell, 32, then tried to hack off Martin Milligan's head and leg with a saw.

Heroin addict Bushnell finally went to police when he failed to dismember his 20-year-old victim's body.

He told lawyer Jock Thomson, QC: "I was going to have another go at disposing of the body, but I didn't."

Shocked cops found blood all over Bushnell's flat in Wishaw, Lanarkshire, in September 2001

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https://theukdatabase.com/2013/07/12/brent-day-helensburgh/

 

I was on a boat with this guy, while he did have a beard (a well known paedo giveaway) he seemed a sound guy, liked his bevvy and was known to pull the odd 'larger lady' so I was surprised to hear about him getting nicked for the kiddy porn. Now if he'd worn glasses a a big flasher mack I'm sure I would have spotted him.  :lol:

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In the late 80's I worked with a guy called John Bull from Dalkeith. Went for a pint with him one Friday lunchtime and that evening he went home and stabbed his wife 20 odd times with a pair of scissors and dropped a TV on her head. He was in his 50's and had met some woman he went to school with who was back for a visit from New Zealand. He got life for murder. 

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-13147111

 

When this guy was serving his previous sentence, from the story:    "It also emerged that McLean was jailed for six years in 2002 for serious assault."  I was living with his ex-girlfriend.  I used to get phone calls threatening me from prison which I just laughed off at the time as I was 18 and didn't really care/fear.  It wasn't until this happened that I realised I probably was quite lucky.

 

His brother tried to attack me in Troon one day when the 2005 Open was on but was shite at it.

 

The girl in question I am still quite friendly with and she told me that this killing (don't take this the wrong way) was almost a relief for her as the guy McLean had been stalking her since he got out of jail circa 2006/2007.

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Black and White Tragic

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In the late 80's I worked with a guy called John Bull from Dalkeith. Went for a pint with him one Friday lunchtime and that evening he went home and stabbed his wife 20 odd times with a pair of scissors and dropped a TV on her head. He was in his 50's and had met some woman he went to school with who was back for a visit from New Zealand. He got life for murder.

Did you spill his pint or say something that started this chain of events?

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I used to have a kickabout on Sundays with a few of my mates when I lived in Inverness, this guy used to play - http://www.highland-news.co.uk/News/1m-bets-fraud-gamblers-years-of-cheating-5252.htm

This guy was in my year at school - http://www.highland-news.co.uk/Home/Killer-gets-six-months-for-vicious-assault-6292684.htm

 

Also, this lassie was in my year at school - http://www.highland-news.co.uk/News/Bail-breach-Inverness-killer-found-hiding-in-wardrobe-29062012.htm

 

To prove we aren't all murderers, the victim in this case was briefly in my year at school as well - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7811532.stm

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Alexander Pacteau, he stayed on one of my best pal's streets. Always thought he was a quiet guy until, aged 14, he started threatening some wee 6 year old lad who had cheekily ran of with our football with some, shall we say, grim violence.

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My mum taught in some rough primary schools in and around Dunfermline (yes, there really are rough parts there). She feels a sort of pride at her numerous former pupils in the news on armed robbery, murder, attempted murder, drug dealing and assorted beasting raps.

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