One of Scotland’s most vicious gangsters planned to murder Tam “The Licensee” McGraw and leave his decapitated head in the crime-lord’s bed for his wife to discover. ‌

Mark Clinton’s macabre plot –inspired by film classic The Godfather – was thwarted when McGraw died of a heart attack . ‌

Clinton made the ­confession to Glaswegian crime photographer Brian Anderson during a photo assignment at the hood’s Coatbridge flat – outlining a grim alternative plan. ‌

Anderson, 44, said: “I was taking photographs at Clinton’s home when he told me he was going to decapitate Tam McGraw.

“The pair had gone to war and he hated McGraw’s wife Margaret who he saw as the power behind the throne and someone who was supposedly calling the shots.

“He told me he’d planned to ­decapitate Tam McGr

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