BBC release controversial podcast about notorious crime queen ‘Big Mags’ Haney who ran a heroin empire while posing as a community hero – as her granddaughter speaks out for the first time
The BBC today has released a new six -part podcast in Haney, a badly famous Scottish drug dealer ‘Big Mags’.
Haney, who died in 2013, called the Big Mags song, posed as a 70 -year -old, as a community hero, while he was running a ruthless heroin empire for years.
The drug queen attracted the attention of the media in 1997 and carried out a successful campaign to remove a convicted child sex criminal from the Raploch residence in Stirling.
The popular daytime TV show, which he talked about about ‘pedophile panic’, which sweeps England, took part in Kilroy.
The attention of the media’s attention to the rapidly increased and Mags played as an anti-Paedophil campaignist in the protests around Scotland.
However, Big Mags claimed that he wanted to ‘only help the people’ in the community, and eventually appeared as the leader of a bad criminal clan called ‘family from hell’.
Behind the Matriarch’s public image, the grandmother used her own children and grandchildren to sell about £ 24,000 from the council of ‘Kale Haney’ or ‘Haney’s Hotel’ every month.
This was in addition to £ 1,200 in the state advantages monthly.
Margaret ‘Big Mags’ Haney sold heroin and ranked £ 24,000 per month above £ 1,200 per month.
Scottish Mother and Grandma were known to be open to everyone by carrying out a campaign against pedophiles – but it was particularly a drug queen.
After being exposed by a secret journalist initially, he was imprisoned for conducting a large -scale heroin processing operation in Stirling and was imprisoned for 12 years in 2003.
He wasn’t alone.
The other three members of the Haney clan were arrested for drug charges before he was tried in the Supreme Court in Edinburgh.
They were all sentenced to prison. Judge Lady Smith described Big Mags as the brain behind the heroin operation, and he has been given the longest sentence for 12 years.
Meanwhile, Mags’s 35 -year -old daughter Diane was sentenced to nine years and her 31 -year -old son Hugh was imprisoned for five years. His 40 -year -old nephew Roseann was sentenced to seven years in prison.
Cassie, the grandson of Mags and Diane’s daughter, was only 10 years old.
He said BBC: ‘Cassie told BBC.
‘It was, “Your mother is in prison, but you will soon see her.”
Mags came to the fore after the popular daytime TV show appeared in Kilroy, where he discussed his anti -pedophile activism
Gangster, while joining the court, his daughter Diane (in the picture, the center) was handcuffed (left)
‘Then the attitudes towards them were very much, “You made your bed and lying in it” and there was not much thought for everyone. “
Although Podcast is controversial, Cassie felt like boxing. [Mag] To tell his story ‘.
He added that it is possible for two things to be real, and that Mags sold drugs that could have killed people, it does not mean that it is not a good grandmother and a person.
Speaking about the new series, journalist Myles Bonnar investigating the life of the clan figure, Mag’s life will look at his life and will look at wider social problems, he said.
Added: ‘Mags Haney’s prominent and dramatic decline after the revelation of criminal activities was a story played in the media over the years.
‘The series examines not only the contradictory life, but also the wider issues about mafia justice, community dynamics, poverty and the creation of so -called media personality.
‘Many people know the story of this controversial figure only partly, and this series will exactly explain how it has risen to fame and has become a source of admiration for media and people before the penalty life is exposed.’
Big Mags’s grandson (in the picture) said that he was a kindergarten drug dealer, but also a good grandmother and grandfather
And the BBC Scotland spokesman added: ‘The Podcast Series is a detailed look at a story that is covered by many media organizations, including newspapers, in the public spotlight for a significant time.
However, it has been extremely controversial in some neighborhoods.
Scottish Conservative Shadow Work, Economy, Tourism and Culture Secretary Murdo Fraser, the publisher’s famous status to cover a large heroin operation to a woman who uses the decision to broadcast the eyebrows, he said.
Authorized added: ‘Many taxpayers will question why this controversial figure of license fees, especially at a time when the BBC budgets are bored.’
Crime Next Door: Big Mags Ballad Podcast is now available on BBC Sounds.
