Police are appealing for help over unsolved gangland shootings. Four underworld assassinations and six other firearms incidents have yet to be solved. Six of the incidents are linked to the tit-for-tat drug war between the rival Lyons and Daniel families.
Gangster Frank McPhie – who was cleared of two murders – was executed by a sniper outside his home in Guthrie Street, in Glasgow’s Maryhill, on May 10, 2000. The 51-year-old, an associate of Glasgow crime boss Arthur Thompson, was jailed for robbery in 1978 and 1986, and over a £200,000 drug bust in 1992.
McPhie was shot from the eighth floor of a nearby building, amid a feud with the Daniel crime clan. Nobody has ever gone on trial or been convicted over his death. Gang boss Tony McGovern, said to have made millions from heroin dealing, survived a shooting at his home in Kenmure Crescent, in Bishopbriggs, near Glasgow on June 21, 2000, reports the Daily Record.
