Paul Ferris, the former crime enforcer who died on October 6 at the age of 62, was laid to rest at Daldowie Crematorium in Uddington, near Glasgow, on Monday, October 19. Family and friends gathered to pay their respects at the service.
His cause of death was listed on a medical document as "Multiple Organ Failure (Cardiovascular, Liver and Respiratory)" and "Decompensated alcoholic liver disease". In a statement released ahead of the service, his loved ones asked those wishing to pay respects to consider a "gesture of kindness" that could "make a real difference to the lives of others".
The Glasgow City Council-managed site is the same place where his sworn enemy, crime boss Tam "The Licensee" McGraw, was laid to rest following his death 19 years ago.
Ferris's Criminal History
Ferris first entered the public eye in 1992 when he was acquitted at the High Court in Glasgow of the murder of Arthur Thompson jnr - son of crime boss Arthur Thompson snr - in what was then the longest trial in Scottish criminal history.
He was later found guilty at London's Old Bailey in 1998, where he was convicted of conspiracy to sell or transfer prohibited weapons, dealing in firearms, and possessing explosives. His first book, The Ferris Conspiracy, was later adapted into the Bafta award-winning film The Wee Man.
Other Gangland Funerals
Following his funeral, here's a look at other gangland-related ones over the years, as reported by the Daily Record.
Eddie Lyons and Ross Monaghan had a joint funeral service after their bodies were returned to Scotland. A double funeral saw the Lyons mobsters laid to rest together following their execution in the Costa Del Sol in May last year. They were gunned down in a targeted assassination at Monaghan's bar in Fuengirola in front of holidaymakers following the Champions League final.
Mourners attended the service at Bishopbriggs Crematorium in July 2025. Two silver funeral cars carrying two black coffins arrived at the site with floral wreaths carrying the words "Son" and "Dad" placed inside. They were followed by Mercedes vehicles carrying their loved ones and closest associates. A pair of private security guards in yellow jackets were seen monitoring the scene as they moved around the car park. Lyons godfather Eddie Snr, 68, and the clan's close associate Liam Boyle, 45, both attended.
Billy Thompson, son of gangster godfather Arthur Thompson Snr, had a memorial service in Glasgow in 2017. He was laid to rest at Riddrie Cemetery in Glasgow alongside his sister Margaret, who died of a drug overdose in 1989. He fought drug addiction most of his life before his death at the age of 50. His brother Arthur Jr, 31, known as Fat Boy, was killed outside the family home, known as 'The Ponderosa', in 1991. Billy served multiple jail terms and was left fighting for his life after being attacked in 2000. He struggled to live up to the family's reputation but once gave photographer Brian Anderson a death threat after he pictured him outside a homeless shelter.
Jamie Daniel, the late crime clan leader, was honoured by the underworld fraternity in Glasgow at Clydebank Crematorium following his death in 2016. His son Zander Sutherland was brought to the crematorium in a prison van, after having previously been refused permission to attend the service. Sutherland helped carry the coffin into the crematorium with family members. He was flanked by three G4S security guards who were chained to him throughout the service. As the coffin was taken into the crematorium, Elvis Presley's classic hit In the Ghetto was played over the sound system. The mourners were led by Daniel's wife Debbi Mortimer, his brothers Norman, David and Ronnie, son Francis "Fraggle" Green and daughter Kelly 'Bo' Green.
Daniel, 58, built up a massive drugs and crime empire. In 1983, at the age of 25, he was jailed for four years in England for heroin smuggling. Over the next 20 years, he forged alliances with some of London's biggest crime families.
Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll, a Daniel enforcer who led a gang who abducted, tortured and robbed rival drug dealers, was laid to rest in 2010. He was executed outside an Asda in Glasgow. Around 250 crime associates and family members attended the service at Maryhill Crematorium. They heard tributes to the gangster who slashed and tortured his way to the top of the city's underworld. The coffin was paraded through the streets afterwards in a glass-sided horse-drawn carriage before he was buried at a cemetery.
Tam McGraw was cremated at Daldowie Crematorium in 2007. In a nod to the show Star Trek, the minister at the funeral said: "Beam me up Scotty." McGraw, who was battling colon cancer at the time, died at his fortified home in Glasgow's Mount Vernon from a heart attack. His brother Francis and brother-in-law "Snadz" Adams, a former colleague in the notorious Barlanark Team of armed robbers, were seated in the front rows at the service. Other gangland figures, including McGraw's right-hand man John "Joker" McCartney and security bosses Michael "Benji" Bennett and Stephen "Scudder" Scullion, were also in attendance.
McGraw made millions from his criminal empire. But his final years saw him become a forlorn figure after two of his most trusted allies, Gordon Ross and Billy McPhee, were murdered amid his feud with Paul Ferris.
