Crimes that shocked Scotland: Blood-thirsty 'Fiend of the Gorbals' used a razor blade to slash victims

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criminal who terrorised the streets of Glasgow, stabbing and slashing his victims with a razor blade which he concealed in his hand.

Scots killer Patrick Carraher was so notorious for violence he was nicknamed "the Fiend of the Gorbals" before he met his maker and became the second man hanged at Barlinnie prison.

Born in 1906 into a working-class family, the thug developed an insatiable appetite for street fighting from a young age and was sent to a borstal at just 14.

It was his first taste of incarceration, and he would spend the rest of his life in and out of Scottish prisons while wreaking havoc on the streets as a free man.In 1938, he was convicted of culpable homicide after stabbing 23-year-old James Emden - but served just three.