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Authors: Jim Wilson

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Football-star-turned-TV-pundit Charlie Nicholas was formerly Milligan’s business partner. Nicholas did not attend the funeral and would later accuse his former partner of forging his signature on legal documents.

Jamie ‘The Iceman’ Stevenson and his wife Caroline pictured before they married in 1998.

The McGoverns’ brother-in-law, Russell Stirton, front, and Stirton’s business partner Alexander Anderson leave the Court of Session in Edinburgh in 2004. Official asset-strippers claimed their business empire was built on dirty money.

The garage in Springburn, Glasgow, that Stirton and Anderson owned. Although it sold the cheapest petrol in Scotland, investigators found it hard to believe that the large sums it was banking every day in 2004 all came from fuel sales.

In October 2001, car thief John Hall was found shot dead in Lanarkshire. He had been bound, killed and then set alight.

The body of Hall’s friend David McIntosh was found beside him. Detectives believe the double murder may have been linked to the killing of Tony McGovern thirteen months before.

The double murder bore striking similarities to the death of drug dealer John Nisbet, who had been shot and killed in 1999.

Nisbet’s friend William Lindsay was murdered at the same time. The men had been tortured, shot and then set alight in Lanarkshire before their bodies were dumped over thirty miles away in East Lothian.

Some of the 8 tonnes of cannabis found on board the
Squilla
are unloaded on the dockside at Cadiz by Spanish police in June 2005. The converted trawler was seized at sea as part of Operation Folklore as it was sailing to Scotland.

In April 2006, the
Squilla
ringleader and long-time Stevenson associate John ‘Piddy’ Gorman (top left) was jailed for twelve years. His gang included (clockwise from Gorman) William McDonald, Mushtaq Ahmed, James Lowrie, Sufian Mohammed Dris, Arno Podder, William Reid and Douglas Prince. Those in the top row were jailed in the UK while, in Madrid, the gang members pictured in the bottom row were also given prison terms.

Lorry driver Robert McDowall leaving the High Court in Edinburgh in February 2005 after having just £637 of his estimated £1 million assets seized. Politicians who criticised the deal were unaware that McDowall was to be the star witness against Stevenson.

This modest block of flats in Fishescoates Gardens, Burnside, near Glasgow, is where Jamie Stevenson lived quietly with his wife. From here, he ran Scotland’s biggest international drugs trafficking operation.

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