NO BUYERS FOR JIMMY BOYLE’S SCULPTURES

n by McTears. And his boxer cess bronze has now been rom sale after twice failing

ampbel l , of Glasgow’s Museum, said: “Art should s an investment. e about the pleasure the rom it.” In the 1960s, Boyle as one of the most violent and and he was jailed for life in 1967 for the murder of gangster William “Babs” Rooney.

His turning point came in 1973 when the special unit opened at Barlinnie and he took up art. He also wrote his autobiography, A Sense Of Freedom, which was turned into a TV drama starring David Hayman.

Boyle, now a property developer, lives in France and Morocco with his second wife, actress Kate Fenwick.

PRICE WAR Bids for works by Boyle are in freefall ARTIST Boyle, left, at work in jail in 1980. Above, Larry Winters and Boyle’s bust