The 56-year-old had been reported missing on Sunday. As a subscriber, you are shown 80% less display advertising when reading our articles. Thompson himself had been known for punishing enemies or bad debtors by nailing their hands and feet to the floor crucifixion-style. One police file said: The overall picture of Thompson is that of aviolent, vicious and active criminal who will stop at nothing to uphold his position in the underworld as a hard man and to gain his own ends.. Ironically Ferriss incarceration by the authorities saved his life. The term Mungiki means multitude or united people in the Kikuyu language. 'You're wasting your time,' a shopkeeper said. [8] Billy had recently served a prison sentence for possessing a harpoon gun. Theres also little doubt that Arthur Thompson Snr ordered the killings. [14], Chasing Killers Joe Jackson ISBN978-1-84596-406-1. Copyright 2006 Gale, Cengage Learning. Rita, stabbed the wife of Patrick Welsh in the chest. Arthurs son Billy became a heroin addict, and his daughter Margaret died from a heroin overdose. The gunman, an IRA hitman, had been hired by a rival to kill him. Nadiya Tkachenko compitiendo en la prueba de lanzamiento de peso en el pentatln olmpico de 1980, donde gan la medalla de oro. They fought in the streets, they fought in the pubs and they made names for themselves - but it was amongst themselves. He was a very violent, ruthless, clever criminal and a real nasty piece of work. The Mungiki was linked to a triple murder in the United States and also mutilated and decapitated a 2-year old boy as part of a bizarre ritual. Shortly afterwards, he spotted two men he suspected of the attack, Patrick Welsh and James Goldie, members of the rival Welsh family Blackhill gang. On the eve of it the north court of the High Court in Glasgow is set on fire by Norval's mob in attempt to burn all the files on the case they believe are held in the vaults. In 1966 he escaped death when a bomb exploded in his MG sports car, but his mother-in-law, in the passenger seat, was killed. THE widow of Arthur Thompson, the former Glasgow godfather, has died. One theory is that McPhee had tried to muscle in on the drug trade controlled by former Irish terrorists. By the Eighties, the Thompson clan had moved into. By the 1980s, the Thompson family had entered the drug trade, led by Thompson's son Arthur Jr.[5] It was rumoured that, by the 1990s, Thompson was earning some 100,000 a week as a loan shark (usurer). His death was to prove the beginning of the end for the Thompson family fiefdom. Joe, now 80, said: As far as I was concerned what my brother and I saw that night was murder. At 1.30pm, five cars left her home in Provanmill Road in Glasgow's East End bound for nearby Riddrie Park Cemetery. After several escapes from camp he was sentenced to 18 months hard labour for slashing another soldier with shards of glass. It was clear to everyone in the citys underworld what type of message was being sent out with the double murder. However, Ferris was found not guilty of all charges in June that year after the longest-running murder trial in Scottish legal history. Find census, military, and other historical records.*. Two weeks later Joe learned of Thompsons plans to blow up both his and Johns homes in Glasgow. Data returned from the Piano 'meterActive/meterExpired' callback event. The name sticks because in 1977 its members are involved in four different trials and to avoid cross-contamination the principals are given anonymous idents, Mr X, Mr Y, and so on. Find local and national death notices, funeral notices, obituaries, in memoriams, and acknowledgements at funeral-notices.co.uk, plus a directory of over 3,000 UK Funeral Directors As a result, they were given a police guard and their families moved to safety in another part of the city. - but was later drafted for National Service, which he was determined to avoid, as he had much of school. Joe Jackson was with his older brother John when they saw Thompson, in his top-of-the-range Jaguar, force a van into a lamppost, killing the occupants, James Goldie and Patrick Welsh. Search the Bridgeman archive by uploading an image. Privacy policy | Join Facebook to connect with Rita and others you may know. Thompson signed into a private clinic in the West End of Glasgow and told police the injury was caused by a broken drill bit. Three months later, Thompson narrowly escaped death when he was in a car that exploded outside his house. In 1969 Thompson's wife, Rita, forced her way into the Welsh home, stabbed Patrick Welsh's wife in the chest, and was jailed for three years. Another underworld figure vying for control is a 65-year-old Scot, Billy Blackledge, who has been on the run from the FBI for 10 years for his involvement in a 10 million drugs deal involving Hell's Angels from Canada. United Kingdom, {"event":"pageview","page_type1":"catalog","page_type2":"image_page","language":"en","user_logged":"false","user_type":"ecommerce","nl_subscriber":"false"}, {"event":"ecommerce_event","event_name":"view_item","event_category":"browse_catalog","ecommerce":{"items":[{"item_id":"MPX5165602","item_brand":"other","item_category":"photo","item_category2":"no_copyright","item_category3":"standard","item_category5":"not_balown","item_list_name":"search_results","item_name":"glasgow_gangster_arthur_thompson_with_his_wife_rita_thompson_c_1970_b_w_photo","item_variant":"undefined"}]}}. This site is part of Newsquest's audited local newspaper network. In the 1960s, his wife Rita was employed as a singer, with one pub paying a fee of 200 for each performance - the equivalent of 4000 in today's money. As a consequence, many of the young men that arrived gravitated towards violence. View the profiles of people named Rita. Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours. It was started in California when large groups of people from El Salvador fled the country during its civil war. Richard Thompson, live Glasgow Scotland October 1999, recorded by me from Digital broadcast. The iconic firm was formed back in 1965. When they arrived in Los Angeles, they encountered an established system of Latin gangs and were not welcome. Also known as MS-13, Mara Salvatrucha is arguably the most dangerous gang in the United States at present and they are apparently the gang that the FBI is most worried about. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. After a few years of relatively low-key activity, the gang escalated its violent activity in 2007. "He will inevitably return to his lucrative club management and his position as a leader of the Glasgow criminal fraternity. Today, there is an estimated 70,000 members throughout Central and North America. Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Norval's daughter, Rita Gunn, is charged with conspiring to damage the court but acquitted. Glasgow Live. A funeral mass will be held at 11 AM, on Wednesday, March 1, 2023, at St. Michaels Catholic Church, Galena where friends may gather after 10:30 AM until the time of mass. Body of missing man Matthew Cosgrove discovered by police in Lanarkshire. Fatboy was very different to his father. Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Rita Thompson, 72, who had throat cancer, died on Tuesday. Glasgow comedian pokes fun at 'West End Mums' in hilarious Pet Shop Boys parody, Hilarious TikToker Zara has created a fantastic parody of Pet Shop Boys 80s classic 'West End Girls' taking aim at mums living in the west end of the city 'because being south's an anxiety trigger. Friends of Thompson say he was never the same after young Arthurs death. Secret reports on Thompson from the late 1960s made public for the first time by the Scottish Government in 2010 present a chilling portrait of the man. HP10 9TY. At an identification parade, he refused to identify the IRA suspect. She revealed her dying wish when she was told she was losing her battle with throat cancer, according to a former henchman of her late husband. In the 1960s, his wife Rita was employed as a singer, with one pub paying a fee of 200 for each performance the equivalent of 4000 in todays money. The London Euston to Glasgow train was forced to come to an emergency stop; . Another measure of his influence came after his son Arthur Thompson Jr was jailed for 11 years in 1985 for drug dealing. His coffin was carried by members of a biker club, his six daughters and a granddaughter all wore matching red outfits and music from the Clash blared out as the retinue made its way into the crematorium. It was at this point he even joked about speaking with cotton wool in his mouth. We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse. Arthur Thompson was one of 300 people called to give evidence. As a result, they were given a police guard and their families moved to safety. Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. But when I was with Thompson, I was safe and I could have had anything in the pub that I wanted that night.. He died in March 2017, so at the time of writing, Tracey Thompson is Arthurs only remaining child. BROOKS John to Elizabeth (McInally) on 19th June 1971, in the parish of the Immaculate Heart of. This website and associated newspapers adhere to the Independent Press Standards Organisation's 74 members of the sect were arrested. He would have given his last penny to anybody, and he often did., Trouble was it was someone else's money. She sadly passed away on Wednesday, March 1. Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services. Like any other inmate, he regularly applied for parole and the previously secret documents reflected the view of the authorities had of him at the time. Visitation will be . ANNENBERG--Leonore. The first bullet grazed his cheek, the second smashed into his ribs, a lung, the third, tore through his gut and pierced his heart. By the early 1980's Thompson - now in his 50's - was all-powerful in Glasgow and beyond. READ MORE:The Glasgow crime story of the murder of Jackie Gallagher. Which was only partly true because he hurt many nobodies. Arthur Jnr had enjoyed a celebratory dinner with his father and other family members at the popular Cafe India restaurant in Glasgows Charing Cross. Veteran crime reporter Ron McKay tells the story of Walter Norval, the former boss of Glasgow's infamous XYY Gang. In October 2016, the gang is believed to have murdered up to 6 people in the Brentwood area of New York including two teenage girls. Young Arthur - nicknamed Fat Boy by his detractors - had been released that Saturday morning from Noranside Prison in Angus on a weekend parole as part of a training for freedom programme. Please note that only low-res files should be uploaded. HE was Glasgows equivalent of Don Corleone, the fictional New York crime godfather immortalised in his portrayal by Marlon Brando. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. Campbell, convicted of the 1984 Ice Cream Murders when six members of the Doyle family died in a blaze in Ruchazie, Glasgow, has, like Ferris, long accused McGraw of building his criminal empire. Thompson is survived by Tracey Thompson, his last remaining child. [8] In the United States, MS-13 is making its deadly mark. Rita Thompson is on Facebook.