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Glasgow Live
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Ron McKay & David McLean

Glasgow's 'Godfather' Arthur Thompson whose reign of terror spanned 30 years remembered

Thirty years ago, one of Glasgow's most notorious gangland leaders of the 20th century was pronounced dead at the city's Royal Infirmary from natural causes.

Dubbed 'The Godfather', Arthur Thompson Snr, who had reigned supreme in the city's criminal underworld for several decades, died on March 13, 1993 at the age of 61 from a heart attack.

It was an unlikely death for the drug baron and former money lender, who had been a top target for rival gang leaders and numerous other shady characters in Glasgow and further afield since at least the 1960s.

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