Norman Silvester

HE was the Glasgow hitman known in Liverpool as Mad Jock.

HE was the Glasgow teenager who became one of the most prolific scammers and fraudsters ever seen in Britain.

IT was the brutal murder of an elderly woman that shocked Glasgow and led to thousands of local men being DNA tested in a bid to catch her killer.

It was a hot summer’s day in late June 2003, and Stewart Boyd was making his way back to his home in the south of Spain.

It was the four minute robbery in Glasgow's famous Argyll Arcade that shocked the country and terrified those who witnessed it.

ANDREW BATCHELOR was a man who wanted to go places and enjoy the good things in life.

GLASGOW CRIME STORIES: TWINS GO ON TRIAL OVER MURDER OF SCHOOLBOY BY NORMAN SILVESTER It was the death of a 15-year-old schoolboy that exposed simmering racial tensions in Glasgow and a knife-carrying gang culture that pitted white and Asian youths against each other.

City police officer who was ahead of his time Norman Silvester He was one of Glasgow’s most decorated detectives and brought many of the best-known criminals of his day to justice.

Lamplighter was shot trying to help police BY NORMAN SILVESTER IN 1906, 19-year-old William Millar was one of more than 700 men in Glasgow who were employed as lamplighters.

Third-year student murdered at school IT was just another day for teenager Euan Craig as he set off for school having said goodbye to his parents.