A Dark City

Send us Fan Mail Eight murders in one square mile. No convictions. And a trail of families left with nothing but rumours, court transcripts, and the sickening sense that everyone knows more than they will ever say. We take you into Glasgow’s “Murder Mile” in the Gorbals and Loriston, where violence repeats across decades and the justice system keeps coming up empty.  We start with John Lynch in 19...

Send us Fan Mail Nine shots tear through a quiet street in Airdrie, and a man known as a gentle giant is left dead on his own doorstep. We walk through the murder of Gary Moore, a devoted dad and gym owner who built a reputation helping troubled young people through fitness, then ask the question that won’t leave you alone: how does someone like that end up the target of an execution-style hit? Fr...

Send us Fan Mail A gang turns up at a Glasgow tenement and demands £10 a week for “UDA protection”. Hours later, Hector Smith is dead on his living room floor, shot at point-blank range after refusing to be threatened. We follow the chain of events that begins with Brian Hosey, a violent National Front activist desperate to look like a loyalist hard man, and ends with a family shattered on Arlingt...

Send us Fan Mail Three shots at a red light can change a city’s criminal map. We walk through the night Ewan E J Johnston is executed in Glasgow’s Kinning Park while sitting in his Audi RS-4, then follow the investigation as it builds from street-level chaos into a meticulous, evidence-led case. If you’re drawn to Glasgow true crime, forensic detail, and the uncomfortable logic of gangland power,...

Send us Fan Mail Glasgow doesn’t just have famous streets and hard weather, it has a gangland history that still echoes in courtrooms, cemeteries, and school gates. We follow one of the city’s most violent organised crime feuds, the battle between the Lyons family and the Daniel crime clan, and how a rumoured missing cocaine stash turns into years of shootings, stabbings, and calculated revenge. W...

Send us Fan Mail A seven pound debt ends with a man cut down on a Glasgow tenement floor and a 23-year-old sent away for life. That young enforcer is Jimmy Boyle, raised in the Gorbals where poverty, razor gangs and loan shark terror shaped a version of survival built on intimidation. We follow the path from petty theft to safe breaking to tally man violence, then into the Rooney murder, the fligh...

Send us Fan Mail Nine shots crack through Glasgow city centre on a Monday night, and within seconds George Redmond is dying on the pavement outside the Waldorf Bar. The gunman is gone, the stolen Porsche Cayenne disappears towards the M8, and by the time police catch up it’s burning in Gartkosh with every trace of evidence going up in smoke. That single detail tells you what kind of killing this i...

Send us Fan Mail A city’s pride can hide a thousand secrets, and Glasgow’s Square Mile of Murder shows how easily elegance can coexist with danger. We step through Blythswood Square, Sandyford Place, Sauchiehall Street and West Princes Street to trace four cases that tested the limits of Victorian and Edwardian justice: the scandal of Madeline Smith, the brutal Sandyford killing, Dr Edward Pritcha...

Send us Fan Mail A gunman waits near the Ponderosa, a city braces for a high-profile funeral, and by morning two men lie in a Ford Orion parked on the route. We pull the thread through Glasgow’s underworld to examine how power, fear, and reputation collide in the feud between the Thompson family and Paul Ferris, and why the killings of Joe Hanlon and Bobby Glover still haunt the city’s memory. Dra...

Send us Fan Mail A single shot on a quiet Maryhill street shattered more than a man’s life—it redrew the contours of Glasgow’s underworld. We revisit the assassination of Frank “The Iceman” McPhee with a clear eye on who he was, why he was feared, and how a rooftop sniper turned a bitter feud into a meticulously planned killing that still haunts the city. We chart McPhee’s rise through the 1980s a...

Send us Fan Mail A warm night on the Costa del Sol, a crowded beachfront bar, and two sharp cracks that changed everything. We open on the Fuengirola double murder that left Ross Monaghan and Eddie Lyons Jr dead in under a minute, then trace the fault lines back through decades of Glasgow’s organised crime—territory disputes, drug routes, and a rivalry between the Lions and the Daniel groups that...

Send us Fan Mail Glasgow's streets have long echoed with the footsteps of gangland rivalries, but none have cast as long a shadow as the bloody war between the Daniel and Lyons families. What began in 2001 with the theft of cocaine valued between £20,000 and £500,000 has evolved into Scotland's most enduring and vicious criminal feud, claiming numerous lives and expanding beyond national...

Send us Fan Mail Glasgow's shadowy past holds few stories as haunting as that of Susan Newell, the last woman ever executed in Scotland. When 13-year-old newspaper boy John Johnston was found murdered in June 1923, few could have predicted the shocking chain of events that would follow. What drives a desperate mother to commit murder? Born into poverty and widowed during World War I, Susan Ne...

Send us Fan Mail A bloody footprint led to the gallows. A divided city fought for justice. The brutal murder of servant Jessie McPherson in July 1862 shocked Victorian Glasgow to its core. Her body, discovered in the wealthy Fleming household at Sandiford Place, bore the marks of approximately 40 savage blows. Someone had attempted to clean both the crime scene and the victim's body, yet bloo...

Send us Fan Mail Eleni Pachou, a young Greek woman who moved to Glasgow for a fresh start, was brutally murdered in DiMaggio's restaurant where she worked as a trainee manager. Her killer, Juan Carlos Suarez Crispin, a former colleague, stabbed her 17 times before stealing £1,300 from the restaurant safe. • Eleni had moved to Scotland approximately two and a half years before her murder, foll...

Send us Fan Mail The brutal murder of Arthur Thompson Jr in the summer of 1991 wasn't just another gangland killing—it was the moment Glasgow's criminal underworld erupted into unprecedented violence, forever changing the city's criminal landscape. Fat Boy, as he was known, lived a life most couldn't imagine. Born into criminal royalty as the son and heir to Arthur Thompson Sr—...

Send us Fan Mail Discover the haunting Glasgow chapter of Fred West's life before he became Britain's most notorious serial killer. This gripping episode delves into West's formative years in Scotland during the early 1960s, revealing disturbing patterns of behaviour that would evolve into the horror of Cromwell Street. Few realize that before the discovery of the "House of Hor...

Send us Fan Mail The brutal murder of Karen Buckley shattered Glasgow's sense of safety in April 2015. A vibrant 24-year-old nursing student with dreams of becoming an occupational therapist, Karen's life ended after a chance encounter with Alexander Pacteau outside The Sanctuary nightclub. What appeared to be an offer of a lift home turned into a nightmare that has haunted Scotland ever...

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Send us Fan Mail A talented professional with a zest for life vanishes after parking her car on a spring evening in Glasgow. When her body is discovered in Queen's Park the next morning, the community is plunged into fear and disbelief. Moira Jones was everything you'd want in a friend - warm, vibrant, genuinely interested in others, and possessing the rare ability to make everyone feel...

Send us Fan Mail The brutal assassination of Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll would forever change Glasgow's criminal landscape. On a cold January day in 2010, two masked gunmen approached an Audi in an Asda car park and, in just 25 seconds, fired 13 bullets that ended the life of one of Scotland's most feared criminals. What transforms a young boy from Milton estate into a notorious enf...

Send us Fan Mail Few names strike fear into the hearts of Scots like Peter Manuel - the Beast of Birkenshaw. Born in New York but raised in Scotland, Manuel's transformation from bullied outsider to Scotland's first documented serial killer represents one of the darkest chapters in Glasgow's crime history. From 1956 to 1958, Manuel embarked on a killing spree that claimed at least s...

Send us Fan Mail What if a city's beloved ice cream vans were at the heart of a deadly turf war? Journey with us to 1980s Glasgow, where the seemingly innocent world of ice cream sales was a front for a far more sinister operation. You'll hear from witnesses Brian Anderson and Stella Maguire as they recount the night an arson attack shattered their community and stole six members of the...

Send us Fan Mail What if a single tragic event could expose the racial and societal tensions simmering beneath the surface of a city? Join us as we unravel the harrowing story of 15-year-old Kriss Donald, whose senseless murder in Glasgow in 2004 became a landmark case in Scotland's legal history. Discover how Detective Superintendent Elliot McKenzie faced numerous obstacles—from inadequate m...

Send us Fan Mail Could Peter Tobin be Scotland's most elusive and prolific criminal? Unravel the chilling tale of this convicted serial killer and sex offender as we explore the depths of his sinister past and his potential ties to unsolved cases that have haunted the nation for decades. From his early life and volatile relationships to his shocking transformation into a brutal murderer, we e...