A JURY yesterday found Peter Smith, 43, not guilty of stabbing to

death William Fullerton, 54, in a bar in Glasgow.

Mr Fullerton was the son of Billy Fullerton, founder of Glasgow's

notorious razor gang, the Billy Boys, of the twenties.

He was found slumped over the bonnet of a car outside the Mermaid Bar

near his home at Ruby Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow.

At the High Court in Glasgow, Mr Smith, of Hoddam Avenue, Castlemilk,

Glasgow, was found not guilty of stabbing Mr Fullerton in the bar on

August 9 and murdering him.

He did not give evidence, and in a special defence blamed barman

Kenneth Faulds, 33, of Millerfield Road, Dalmarnock, Glasgow, for the

crime.

The court was told that staff and customers tried to cover up the fact

that the assault took place in the bar.

It was stated that police arrived quickly, but found Mr Fullerton had

already been driven to hospital by Mr Ronnie Faulds, 36, whose family

runs the Mermaid.

Staff had tried to clean up pools of blood inside the pub and stuck to

their story that the incident happened outside.

Pub cleaner Josephine Hanlon agreed with Mr Michael O'Grady,

prosecuting, that she said she had seen Mr Smith standing over the

victim stabbing him with a knife.

She insisted she had lied to police, and that she had only seen Mr

Smith punching the other man.

The dead man's son, Mr Billy Fullerton, 22, told Mr Donald Findlay,

QC, defending, he knew his grandfather had founded the Billy Boys and

thought it was an Orange flute band.

Mr Findlay said: ''That's like saying the SS were just German

tourists.''

He added : ''Apart from being a flute band, they were a pretty violent

bunch who frequented the Bridgeton area.''

Mr Fullerton denied he and his father were involved in drugs and were

after Mr Smith because he had ''welched'' on a deal after they gave him

#1000 worth of cannabis to sell for them.