Frank McPhee

Frank McPhee (21 October 1948 – 10 May 2000) was a long-time Greater Glasgow–based crime boss.

Early life McPhee was born in Lennoxtown, Glasgow on 21 October 1948. His mother came from an Irish Traveller family, but adopted a settled life more typical of "Buffers", or non-Travellers, as her family started to grow. McPhee and his five sisters knew how to speak Shelta, but he was also embarrassed when his mother spoke it in front of his friends.

His parents briefly moved the family to Edinburgh, before relocating to Maryhill, Glasgow, where McPhee lived for the rest of his life.

Criminal career McPhee was reported to have built his "underworld empire" on drugs and armed robbery. He was jailed in 1978 for five years for robbery and served another five in 1986 for an armed raid.

Death In May 2000, a single shot to was fired into McPhee's head from a .22 ACZ Brno sniper rifle with a telescopic sight. McPhee was killed instantly outside his home in Guthrie Street, Maryhill, Glasgow, 500 yards from Maryhill Police Station, and in full view of his 11-year old son. It was variously reported that a sniper had waited for him after he had been chased through Glasgow by another gunman may have tried to muscle in on the drug trade controlled by former terrorists based in Northern Ireland. and have also probed claims that McPhee had been killed by either the Lyons Crime Family or the Daniel Crime Family, the two main Glasgow organized crime families that have taken his place.