I'm gonna chop off McGraw's head and leave it in his bed for the wife to find

Gangster Clinton told snapper of gruesome plan based on

- BY JOHN DINGWALL

ONE of Scotland's most vicious gangsters planned to murder Tam “The Licensee" McGraw and leave his decapitated head in the crime- lord's bed for his wife to discover.

Mark Clinton's macabre plot - inspired by film classic The Godfather - was thwarted when McGraw died of a heart attack.

Clinton made the confession to Glaswegian crime photographer Brian Anderson during a photo assignment at the hood’s Coatbridge flat - outlining a grim alternative plan.

Anderson, 44, said: “I was taking photographs at Clinton's home when he told me he was going to decapitate Tam McGraw.

“The pair had gone to war and he hated McGraw’s wife Margaret who he saw as the power behind the throne and someone who was supposedly calling the shots.

“He told me he'd planned to decapitate Tam McGraw and put the head in Margaret's bed, but McGraw had just died. He said, Tm going to dig his body up, I'm going to decapitate him and I'm going to stick his decapitated head in Margaret's bed’.

“He went into detail about exhuming McGraw’s body and taking his head off.