professional footballer. But 50 years later, he was deported back to Scotland and branded a threat to Australia. He was a diligent bank worker who became a heroin trafficker and one of Oz’s best connected gangland figures.
At the height of Melbourne’s deadly drug wars – between 1998 and 2005 – McCulloch tried to broker a peace deal between rival factions who had brought murder and mayhem to the city’s streets.
And while locked up for drug offences – on evidence supplied by detectives later found to be corrupt – he transformed himself into a jailhouse lawyer and helped inmates with their appeals.Partick Thistle fan McCulloch always wanted to be a pro footballer.
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