organised crime has begged to return Down Under. Convicted heroin trafficker David McCulloch was deported from Australia almost two years ago amid fears he posed a threat to society.
The 72-year-old, of Glasgow’s Maryhill, was an associate of key figures in Melbourne’s deadly drug war, which resulted in 36 deaths.
But the great-grandad, who left Scotland in 1971, said: “I’m now more Australian than Scottish. My family are in Australia and it’s where my parents are buried.“It’s a long fight and things are moving very slowly.
But my life is there and I need to go back.”In 1986, former footballer McCulloch was jailed for five-and-a-half years for trafficking heroin from a car yard.He said he got sucked into crime when his dad fell ill with.
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