Glasgow's Godfather: The Astonishing Inside Story of Walter Norval, the City's First Crime Boss

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Marguerita - or Mags, 34, would listen to mobster Norval's stories from his time as a hood boss in Glasgow.

It was later said in court that the attack on little Andrea was his way of getting rid of all his anger over the slight from his girlfriend. As well as keeping himself locked up in his cell all day, Phil refused to eat prison meals as he expected them to be contaminated or spat upon. Walter Norval for example had a reasonable standard of living but there was no holiday home in Spain.The world had all but forgotten about Walter Norval until June 1999 when a 71-year old man limped into the dock at Glasgow Sheriff Court and pled Not Guilty to possessing cannabis. Because of the massive media interest, there was a real danger that a jury would be aware of decisions or evidence given in earlier trials. There are claims that "Blue" stands for "bastards, lunatics, undesirables and eccentrics", although this is almost certainly a backronym and the name more simply originates from the colour of the Saltire. He is very anti-drugs and helps on a voluntary basis with a drug rehabilitation programme in the city.

Mr Stephen Grady, defending Norville, said: ''He is acutely embarrassed about being connected with drugs. Actor and musician Charlie Allan was hospitalised after he was allegedly beaten outside a hotel in Stirling in June 2012 by two members of the Blue Angels who accused him of assisting the Outlaws in founding a chapter in Dundee the previous year. Around twenty masked Blue Angels members armed with hammers and metal bars allegedly tried to gain entry to the clubhouse of a rival club in the Moredun area of Edinburgh, on 11 August 2018. He set about doing something that had never been done before and built an elite team of the city's best armed robbers.Speaking to BBC Scotland as she competes in the ICW show, she said: "I missed the crux of the crimewave. Infamous gangland figure Walter Norval spent seven years in jail between 1960 and 1967 and on his release said the first thing he noticed was how the streets had been transformed. He hit the headlines 22 years ago when he was jailed for 14 years for armed robberies on a hospital pay-roll and a bank. He told Mr Pearson where he could recover Norval's cache of firearms and money stolen during the robberies. The Blue Angels Motorcycle Club ( BAMC) is an international outlaw motorcycle gang formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 1963.