'Licensee' knifed in street

Tam McGraw (centre) was hit by two men

The Glasgow gangland feud has taken another twist with the second stabbing in a fortnight of Tam McGraw, known as "The Licensee".

McGraw is understood to have been knifed in the neck in the Rutherglen Road area of the Gorbals on Wednesday morning.

There is no word on his condition. Strathclyde Police and the ambulance service say they have no report of the incident.

McGraw has been locked in a bitter feud with Paul Ferris, whose parole was revoked last week after the pair were said to have been involved in a knife fight.

Bullet-proof vest

On that occasion, McGraw initially denied anything had happened and declined to give police a statement.

He is said to have been chased by two men, brought to the ground and stabbed in the neck back. He was wearing a bullet-proof vest to protect his chest.

The two men ran off, leaving McGraw in a pool of blood.

Paul Ferris is back in jail

No hospital in Glasgow has reported treating a man resembling McGraw, but last week when one of his associates was also stabbed, he was taken out of the city for treatment under an alias.

Ferris had served two-thirds of a seven-year sentence for gun-running before his release in January and is now expected to remain locked up until 2005.

He was once an enforcer for the notorious Thompson crime family in Glasgow, but fell out with Arthur Thompson senior.

Ice Cream Wars

The emnity between the two men is also linked through Glasgow's complex underworld web to the recent stabbing of Thomas TC Campbell, one of two men convicted of the Ice Cream Wars murders.

Campbell is currently on bail with his co-accused, Joe Steele, pending an appeal hearing.

They were jailed for life for the murders of six members of the Doyle family, who died in a house fire in Ruchazie in 1984.

McGraw is known as "The Licensee" because of his interests in the pub trade.