Talk:Arthur Thompson
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There are some highly dubious facts without citations in this article. I see that one of the sources for information is "The Ferris Conspiracy" which appears to have been written by Paul Ferris himself, so there might possibly be a conflict of interest? It is said in the current Wikipedia entry that Paul Ferris "was betrayed by Thompson, when he appeared in the witness box against him in a court case which saw Ferris convicted of gun running and sent to prison." However, Thompson died in 1993 and - according to the Edinburgh Evening News article (22nd April 2005) cited in the Wikipedia entry, it was in 1998 that Ferris was "was jailed for seven years at the Old Bailey in London for trafficking guns and explosives". No other gun running trial seems to have happened, so the current Wikipedia entry is claiming that Arthur Thompson went into a witness box and gave evidence five years after he died. Call me old-fashioned (and I am no expert on Glasgow crime) but this seems at least slightly unlikely. It does seem, though that Thompson did gave evidence in the trial at which Ferris was (wrongly) accused of killing Thompson's son. So I think 'facts' without citations in this entry need to be treated with extreme caution. I am no expert and can only go on what I read here. 12:01, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
I removed the disputed section, which seemed to refer to the trial for Thompson Jr's murder, not the gun-running trial. I also removed the lengthy charges Ferris faced, most of which were unrelated to Thompson specifically and which already appeared in the Wiki entry on Ferris. 10:14, 7 Dec 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.178.240.213 (talk)
