BURGER & CHIPS BOSS TO GLOBAL GANGSTER

Cocaine fiend pal introduced McGill to dealers and ran fast food business

- BY JOHN-PAUL CLARK

DUBAI-BASED gangster Ross McGill was introduced to a life of crime by a local dad at just 16.

McGill met Gordon Blackwood - 11 years his senior - on the streets of East Kilbride in 2009.

Sources say McGill, now 31, had bought small amounts of Ecstasy on the dark web, selling to pals before he was introduced to Blackwood, who reportedly hooked the youngster up with a series of dealers.

Blackwood, 42, was later convicted of possessing Class A drugs when he was caught with cocaine worth £20,000 in his jogging bottoms at Tantallon Park in the town in 2014.

The source said that by that time, McGill's life had changed forever.