A GANGLAND enforcer suspected of a notorious Ice Cream Wars mass murder turned up for a photo-shoot with a loaded Magnum revolver.
Street photographer Brian Anderson spent three days with Gary Moore, who worked as an underworld hardman for Glasgow Godfather Arthur Thompson, taking his photo around the city.
Now Brian has revealed all about his chaotic experience dealing with Moore as the 40th anniversary of the Ice Cream Wars approaches.
In 2010, Moore confessed on his deathbed to having been responsible for the deaths of six members of the Doyle family in an arson attack in 1984, as gangs battled for control of the city’s lucrative Ice Cream and drug trades.
But Anderson says the “psychopath” showed no remorse over the deaths during their photo-shoot around Glasgow in 2004.
The snapper arranged to photograph Moore but was stunned when the gangster, high on drink and drugs, pulled out a loaded Magnum pistol in Glasgow’s George Square and refused to part with it.
Anderson, 53, said: “I had to go to his flat in Govanhill. I walked into a scene that was unbelievable with bottles of vodka lying around.
“It was as if the guy had been partying for a decade. He woke up and had no idea why I was there.
“We went to different locations.
“When I went to meet him on the second day, in George Square, Moore staggered towards me tucking into a fish supper.
“Then he pulled out a Magnum pistol in broad daylight and started waving it about.
“He wanted to shoot the pigeons. I could see the glint of the bullets.”
He added: “On the third day, I managed to get him to the studio which was nearby.
“As I started taking pictures, he pulled out the gun and a big Bowie knife.
“He was high as a kite playing with his gun and loving the attention.
“He was shouting, ‘Top of the world, ma’ as if he was in the James Cagney movie, waving his gun around and I thought, there could be an accident.
“I was ducking all the time as I was taking the pictures in case his gun went off.
“I’m thinking, imagine telling your editor we’re not going to get the picture because the photographer has been shot.
“He was ready to shoot up the place then myself and another guy managed to wrestle the gun off him.
“It made me realise there are people like him walking about the city who could pull out a gun and shoot you.”
Moore, one of Scotland’s most violent criminals, was sentenced to eight years for the killing of convicted killer-turned-sculptor Jimmy Boyle’s son, James Boyle, by stabbing him through the heart with a sword in 1994.
He was also alleged to have killed prostitute Dianne McInally in 1991 but the case against him was dropped due to insufficient evidence.
Moore was charged over the six deaths of the Doyle family in Ruchazie, Glasgow, blaze but cleared due to insufficient evidence.
Thomas “TC” Campbell and Joe Steele served 18 years over the blaze.
But they were freed in 2004 after their convictions were quashed amid claims they were fitted up by cops. Steele, 60, later claimed McGraw ordered the hit.
Anderson said Moore was a man with “no morals”.
He said: “I got the impression he had no regrets about any of the killings.
“He loved that he could look back on those things with no morals.
“He took me to where he killed Jimmy Boyle’s son.
“He was posing away where he had committed the murder.”
Anderson has launched an online magazine called Glasgow Eyes. His photo assignment with Moore is the cover story.
He said: “The magazine stems from my love of photography which has never left me.
“Since 1988, I’ve been documenting the streets by taking pictures of the city.
“I’ve been blindfolded in order to be taken to paramilitary funerals in mainland Britain with people pulling out guns in broad daylight but Moore is on the cover of this gritty magazine because the scariest incident of my career was him waving that gun around.
“I thought about the next day’s headlines about a photographer being blasted in the studio.
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“I’m used to photographing guys like that but I thought, God, I’ve put myself in a position.”
A digital monthly magazine, Glasgow Eyes will cover street photography, photojournalism and gritty crime stories from around the world.
Anderson said: “I’ve had three million views of the magazine cover online ahead of the launch which tells me the audience is there.
“The idea is that it is a cross between Life magazine and Vice for Glasgow and beyond.”
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