A WIDOW who wanted vengeance on the man she believed had set up her

husband's murder told police he was responsible for a pub robbery, the

High Court in Glasgow was told yesterday.

Police did not charge William Lobban, 25, in connection with the

shootings of Bobby Glover, 31, and his friend Joe ''Bananas'' Hanlon,

23. The court was told that Mrs Eileen Glover, 30, then tipped off

police that Lobban was the gunman in a blonde wig who had held up the

Pipe Rack pub in Budhill, Glasgow.

Her evidence about the raid led to Lobban being jailed for six years

yesterday.

Mrs Glover, who said she hated Lobban, said she held him responsible

for the deaths of her husband and Mr Hanlon.

When Mrs Glover told the court that she believed Lobban had been

involved in the killings, even if he was not the actual killer, He

interrupted: ''Eileen, Eileen. It wasn't me.''

Lobban, of Sunnylaw Street, Possilpark, Glasgow, had denied robbing

the pub in Crammond Place, Budhill, Glasgow, on July 28, 1991, of #949

at gunpoint.

Then, he was on the run after escaping from a six-year sentence for

assault and robbery imposed at the High Court in Paisley in February

1988. He was nicknamed Tootsie because he disguised himself in a woman's

wig and clothing.

Pub staff said they were confronted by Lobban, wearing a wig and

glasses. He struck a barman on the head several times with the gun

barrel. Mrs Glover, of Auchengill Road, Easterhouse, Glasgow, told Mr

Andrew Lamb, prosecuting, that Lobban had been living with her and her

husband at that time. But he left their house on August 16, 1991, the

night before Glasgow gangster Arthur Thompson Jr was shot dead outside

his home in Provanmill, Glasgow, while on weekend leave from prison

Mrs Glover said Lobban telephoned her the night before Thompson's

funeral on September 18, and arranged a meeting with her husband and Mr

Hanlon.

Their bodies were found in a car outside The Cottage Bar in

Shettleston on the morning of the funeral.

Six months after the pub hold-up she told police that Lobban said that

night he was going out to get ''a bit of money'', and she saw him with

the wig, gloves, glasses, a hold-all, and a gun. She claimed she had

counted the money, which he said he got from the Pipe Rack pub.

Mr Donald Findlay, QC, defending Lobban, said Mrs Glover was a liar,

acting through bitter and twisted malice.

Mr Findlay said Mr Glover and Mr Hanlon, had been found not just

murdered, but butchered in a cold, calculated, and deliberate way, and

it was said to be in revenge for the death of Arthur Thompson Jr.

Mr Findlay said: ''Eileen Glover despises William Lobban. She hates

him with a passion.''

He said she had concocted a story and influenced witnesses to have

Lobban blamed for the pub raid because she thought he was connected in

some way with her husband's death.

The jury found Lobban guilty by a majority, and Lord Kirkwood ordered

the six-year sentence to start in eight months, at the end of Lobban's

present sentence.