The UVF bombed two pubs frequented by Catholics: the Old Barns in Calton and, 15 minutes later, the Clelland Bar in Gorbals.
[3] The attacks were co-ordinated by William "Big Bill" Campbell, the UVF's top commander in Scotland, who was possibly involved with the 1971 McGurk's Bar bombing in Belfast which killed 15 people according to a book published in 2012.
[4] A police investigation led to Campbell, along with eight other UVF members (which included Angus McKenna),[5] to be sentenced at Glasgow High Court in June 1979 and jailed.
Campbell received a 16-year sentence for the pub bombings as well as criminal conspiracy related to firearms and explosives.
[10][11] William Campbell died of natural causes in 1997 and received a funeral in his native Bridgeton, a loyalist stronghold, with thousands in attendance.