Criminal history of biker gang
GREASY haired and leather clad, the notorious Satan’s Slaves motorcycle gang were once one of the most feared in Scotland.
Founded in the 70s, they became infamous around the country for violence, bloodshed, run-ins with the law and clashes with rivals the Outlaws and Hells Angels.
Their members came from across Scotland, as well as northern England, and were linked to crimes across the UK.
The Fife division, which convicted paedophile George Ritchie belonged to, was started by several young riders who are said to have frequented Maggies club in Dunfermline.
Ritchie is just one of many Satan’s Slaves who ended up behind bars.
In 1979, a gang member was jailed for Press cuttings and logo on Satan’s Slaves Facebook site wielding a knife and for admitting that he was the brains behind a £150,000 robbery plot.
Around this time, another Satan’s Slave was among 11 bikers jailed for a total of 55 years after a bloodbath battle with the Hells Angels in Berkshire.
In 2007, George Kerr, a henchman of convicted gunrunner Paul Ferris, was the target of an attempted hit by two Satan’s Slaves in Dundee. He escaped injury.
Members of the gang were also linked to a serious assault on a young man and his girlfriend in a Doncaster pub in December 2010.
As recently as 2011, police in Tayside were probing claims that 4000 bikers were heading to Scotland for a mass battle between The Scottish Blue Angels and Satan’s Slaves.