by Wilson, Jim
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.
The apartment block in Nieuw Sloten, on the outskirts of Amsterdam, where Stevenson bolted in the summer of 2006. He and his wife Caroline lived in a flat, detached from the main block, on the bottom right.
Stevenson leaving Hamilton Sheriff Court in November 2005 after admitting a breach of the peace charge linked to his brawl with Robert ‘Birdman’ O’Hara in Shotts Prison. Until his conviction, this was the only contemporary picture of the gang leader.
Some of the fifty-five luxury watches that Stevenson had paid £307,087 for between 2003 and 2006. They included a Rolex Daytona worth £10,340 and a £30,000 Audemars Piguet.
Stevenson’s wife, Caroline, leaves the High Court in Glasgow after an Operation Folklore hearing in February 2007.
Carbin’s partner, Karen Maxwell, leaves the court after the same hearing. The charges against both women would later be dropped as part of the deal struck with the Crown.
Jamie Stevenson was jailed for twelve years and nine months in April 2007 after being arrested in the Operation Folklore raids and admitting laundering more than £1 million of drugs money.
At the same time, Stevenson’s stepson Gerry Carbin Jnr was jailed for a total of eleven years and nine months. His three sentences will run concurrently with the longest being five years and six months.
Derek Ogg, QC acted for Stevenson as his client reached agreement with the Crown to admit money laundering in return for the drugs charges against him disappearing.
Carbin’s QC, Paul McBride, struck the deal that led to trafficking charges against his client being dropped at the High Court in Glasgow.
Plates
The New Morven pub in Glasgow. Gang boss Tony McGovern was gunned down in the pub’s car park on 16 September 2000.
McGovern pictured in a leaked police mugshot. His family refused to release a picture to the police to help them in the hunt for his killer.
McGovern’s wife, Jackie, right, leaves St Aloysius Church in Springburn, Glasgow, after her husband’s funeral on 20 November 2000.
Jim Milligan, centre and wearing glasses, a McGovern business associate and the owner of the New Morven pub leaves the funeral. He would soon go into hiding as McGovern’s brothers tried to track down a missing fortune.
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.
The apartment block in Nieuw Sloten, on the outskirts of Amsterdam, where Stevenson bolted in the summer of 2006. He and his wife Caroline lived in a flat, detached from the main block, on the bottom right.
Stevenson leaving Hamilton Sheriff Court in November 2005 after admitting a breach of the peace charge linked to his brawl with Robert ‘Birdman’ O’Hara in Shotts Prison. Until his conviction, this was the only contemporary picture of the gang leader.
Some of the fifty-five luxury watches that Stevenson had paid £307,087 for between 2003 and 2006. They included a Rolex Daytona worth £10,340 and a £30,000 Audemars Piguet.
Stevenson’s wife, Caroline, leaves the High Court in Glasgow after an Operation Folklore hearing in February 2007.
Carbin’s partner, Karen Maxwell, leaves the court after the same hearing. The charges against both women would later be dropped as part of the deal struck with the Crown.
Jamie Stevenson was jailed for twelve years and nine months in April 2007 after being arrested in the Operation Folklore raids and admitting laundering more than £1 million of drugs money.
At the same time, Stevenson’s stepson Gerry Carbin Jnr was jailed for a total of eleven years and nine months. His three sentences will run concurrently with the longest being five years and six months.
Derek Ogg, QC acted for Stevenson as his client reached agreement with the Crown to admit money laundering in return for the drugs charges against him disappearing.
Carbin’s QC, Paul McBride, struck the deal that led to trafficking charges against his client being dropped at the High Court in Glasgow.
