Notorious Ice Cream Wars killer turned up to photo-shoot with loaded Magnum revolver

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A GANGLAND enforcer suspected of a notorious Ice Cream Wars mass murder turned up for a photo-shoot with a loaded Magnum revolver.Street photographer Brian Anderson spent three days with Gary Moore, who worked as an underworld hardman for Glasgow Godfather Arthur Thompson, taking his photo around the city.Now Brian has revealed all about his chaotic experience dealing with Moore as the 40th anniversary of the Ice Cream Wars approaches.In 2010, Moore confessed on his deathbed to having been responsible for the deaths of six members of the Doyle family in an arson attack in 1984, as gangs battled for control of the city’s lucrative Ice Cream and drug trades.But Anderson says the “psychopath” showed no remorse over the deaths during their photo-shoot around Glasgow in 2004.The snapper arranged to photograph Moore but was stunned when the gangster, high on drink and drugs, pulled out a loaded Magnum pistol in Glasgow’s George Square and refused to part with it.Anderson, 53, said: “I had to go to his flat in Govanhill.

I walked into a scene that was unbelievable with bottles of vodka lying around.“It was as if the guy had been partying for a decade.

He woke up and had no idea why I was there.“We went to different locations.“When I went to meet him on the second day, in George Square, Moore staggered towards me tucking into a fish supper.“Then he pulled out a Magnum pistol in broad daylight and started waving it about.“He wanted to shoot the pigeons.

I could see the glint of the bullets.”He added: “On the third day, I managed to get him to the studio which was nearby.“As I started taking pictures, he pulled out the gun and a big Bowie knife.“He was high as a kite playing with his gun and loving the attention.“He was shouting,