Joe Beltrami has died.

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Might not mean much for those south of the border, but a very well known Scottish criminal lawyer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west...

BBC said:

"Get me Beltrami" was a phrase coined in the 1970s and 1980s among Glaswegian criminals facing desperate circumstances.

His was a high-profile career as a solicitor, during which he helped obtain the acquittal of 12 murder suspects threatened with hanging.