'Cold, calculating scoundrel': The story of Scotland's most dangerous man

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'Cold, calculating scoundrel': The story of Scotland's most dangerous man
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He was once branded Scotland's most dangerous man

running his own legitimate business, the lure of crime and glamour of being a bank robber was always too much.

He said:"There was all sorts of things going on in London in those days and it was easy to get mixed up in it all."During this period he worked in the print shop in Verne Prison in Dorset.The feared gangsters wanted Crosbie to make fake driving licences and they were willing to pay big money.When he was released he tried to go straight and found work in Ghana with a cocoa mill in the early 1960s.

On August 12 all three were involved in the murders of three police officers, who had stopped them in their car while parked in Shepherd's Bush. Not long afterwards he and one other man carried out an armed hold-up at the Clydesdale's Hillington branch, calmly driving away with £67,000.

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