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Tuesday 22 March 2011

CRIME clan matriarch Big Mags Haney has apologised to her family over her drug dealing shame.

Reportage - 14:12


And she has told of her plans to live quietly now she's been released from jail.
In a rare interview, she spoke to the Record after a teenager was convicted of murdering her grandson Barry Bradley, 18.
And she claimed her family had now become a "target" because of their notoriety.
Haney, 68, said: "The apology I owe to my family is for going to jail and for bringing the spotlight on us all."
She added: "As far as the papers are concerned, I'm more of a bad sort than Myra Hindley or Osama bin Laden.
"But when I got out of jail, I got a house in Alva and I just wanted to live quietly.
"My neighbours are great but there are some elements here that don't want the Haneys and they've made that very clear. We've become a target here."
Haney launched a verbal attack on killer Jack Cramb, 19, who laughed in the dock throughout his trial for murdering her grandson Barry.
She said: "Nobodies - like that Cramb animal - have tried to use us to make a name for themselves. But no one will know him when he's in jail.
"He was on various indictments for assaults and threats against me and my family and others.
"If he had been remanded, as he should have been, my boy would still be alive.
"What he did was the work of an animal. No human being is capable of that.
"I had to sit and look at him snigger at his trial but he won't be sniggering and winking when he gets sentenced.
"Cramb thinks he's a bit of a gangster but where were all his cardboard gangsters in court? His so-called pals have deserted him, he's alone and going away for a long time."
But Haney blames herself for the pain her family have suffered in recent years, culminating in the murder.
She was outed as a large-scale drug dealer in the notorious Raploch housing scheme, in Stirling, by Daily Record investigators in 2001 and served six years in Cornton Vale prison.
Cramb was found guilty of murder at the High Court in Glasgow last week. Barry bled to death when Cramb slashed him with a piece of broken glass.
Cramb had previously threatened Big Mags with a broken bottle at her home.
Haney said: "There was bad blood between Barry and one of Cramb's pals. I had my door set alight late at night when I was at home with Barry's twin sister Michaela.
"Both of us could have died.
"Then I had that animal Cramb threatening me with a broken bottle. He should have been on remand but instead he was free to kill my boy.
"And as Barry lay dying on the street, not one of the people living there opened their door to him, to help or even give him comfort. No doctor in the world could have saved him but the fact people turned their backs on him as he lay dying still haunts me.
"When Barry died, I died too - and part of Michaela died. The only reason I'm still here is because of her."
Barry died following the brutal attack at Nethergate and Dalmore Drive, Alva, Clackmannanshire, on July 25.

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