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If you ask for forgiveness you have to be absolutely honest.'' These days, he reverts to the discipline he honed, during years in jail. They are a long way from the council houses of Glasgow - the city where Jimmy Boyle grew up. incarcerated in 1967 and eventually brought to heel in Barlinnie Special Unit following a course in sculpture and social etiquette - is to discuss his second novel, A Stolen Smile. And those who were dubbed ''bleeding liberals'' for supporting him were often dismissed as hangers-on. Deciding a decade ago to cut free from the media was, he says, ''like coming off drugs''. By this time Boyle had graduated into a ruthless criminal, with connections all the way to the notorious Kray twins in London. He might well be, but it's unlikely they'll know much about who he was - and that's exactly how he likes it. A number of those who had given evidence against Boyle had to be given police protection after the trial. Boyle was one of the first transferred to Barlinnies experimental and controversial Special Unit where prisoners were encouraged to develop artistic talents and begin their rehabilitation in a more relaxed regime. He described a meeting with Boyle after he had been escorted to a hospital in Glasgow for an operation while still in Barlinnie. Due to an art therapy program, he started to work in clay and produced a male likeness, awakening a major creative talent. The children who sparked a lynch-mob mentality after killing Jamie Bulger deserve some peace, he says. Jun 10, 2008 #2. A dunce at school, Boyle now has the confidence to stand up and challenge the elite. His mother worked as a cleaner to support Jimmy and his three brothers. The Glasgow Irish- Jimmy Boyle - IRISHORGANISEDCRIMEFORUM Sara Trevelyan on her life with Glasgow gangster Jimmy Boyle Boyle admitted that he had injured Rooney but has maintained he didnt commit the murder, refusing to name the person responsible. People have got elephants painting with their trunks and selling the results.'' faeces on the walls of his cells. An eternal optimist, he knows emotional pain - the split from his wife, the move to France, suffering for his art - is sometimes necessary. As a subscriber, you are shown 80% less display advertising when reading our articles. quiet title action florida form. At 16, the young hardman, now nicknamed Babyface Boyle, was involved in serious crime and had stolen his first safe. ''I was absolutely terrified.