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About Frank McPhee
- Frank McPhee (21 October 1948 – 10 May 2000) was a long-time Glasgow gangland boss.
- In May 2000, he was killed by a single shot to the head from a .22 rifle with telescopic sight outside his home in Guthrie Street, Maryhill, Glasgow, 500 yards from Maryhill Police Station, while his son watched.
- It was variously reported that a gunman had waited for him after he had been chased through Glasgow by another gunman and that only one gunman was involved.It was reported that a £5,000 'contract' had been put out on his life.
- Police were said to be investigating one theory that McPhee had tried to muscle in on the drug trade controlled by former Irish terrorists.
- He had been responsible for negotiating between dealers in the North and the rest of England.
- Police also probed his links with a "plot to make Scotland the dogfighting capital of Europe"; and probed claims that he had been killed by one of two Glasgow gangster families.McPhee was reported to have built his "underworld empire" on drugs and robbery.
- He was jailed in 1978 for five years for robbery and served another five in 1986 for an armed raid.
- In 1990, he was cleared of involvement in a £42,000 armed raid but was sentenced to eight years for his involvement in a £200,000 drug deal in 1992.
- In 1997, McPhie was prosecuted for the killing of William "Worm" Toye, who was found stabbed to death in Perth Prison, where McPhee was serving time.
- A jury found the case not proven.
- In 1998, three months after his release from prison, McPhee was accused of the murder by strangulation of Chris McGrory, but the case was again found not proven.
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