The 'Iceman' crime boss dubbed Scotland's answer to Tony Soprano: From ordering firebomb attack on his own home to a plot to murder his best man, the rise of drug kingpin Jamie Stevenson as he's finally brought to justice By Rory Tingle and Annie Brown and Martin Robinson Published: 11:45 EDT, 3 October 2024 | Updated: 12:03 EDT, 3 October 2024 e-mail 1 View comments A notorious crime boss jailed over a £100million cocaine importation plot ordered a firebomb attack on his own home and was once accused of trying to murder his best man. Jamie 'Iceman' Stevenson, who has been dubbed the Scottish Tony Soprano, has been finally brought to justice following a long criminal career of global drug smuggling and brutal violence . The 59-year-old was jailed for 20 years yesterday after a five-year police operation involving bananas from South America sent to a Glasgow fruit market, a Kent drugs factory and an Amsterdam brothel.
Stevenson had spent decades as one of the UK's most notorious gangland figures and in 2001 was charged with the murder of his former close friend Tony McGovern before the case was later dropped. The gangster originally rose up through the Glasgow underworld in the 1990s and became close friends with McGovern, whose family ran the so-called McGovernment mob in the north of the city. Jamie Stevenson, pictured in a police mugshot, was jailed yesterday in Glasgow for 20 years Stevenson pictured Alicante's four-star Melia Hotel after being caught in a surveillance st.
