A friend of Paul Ferris speaks, and 'The Wee Man's' last public images
The Scottish Sun followed its short report on the former Glasgow enforcer's death with a longer one, and the longer one is drawing far more viewers than the paper's videos usually do.
The Scottish Sun
Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 89,746 views a day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (7,170).
Paul Ferris’ pal breaks silence over sudden death as gang enforcer’s final public moments revealed
Paul Ferris, the former Glasgow gangland enforcer who later became an author, has died at 62 after a short illness. The Scottish Sun covered it twice. First came a brief Short announcing the death. Then came a longer report in which a friend of Ferris, described as shocked, speaks for the first time, alongside what the paper calls the final public images of the man known as 'The Wee Man'.
The longer report is the one people are opening. It passed 50,000 views in its first ten hours, while a regular-length video here usually ends its whole first day in the low thousands. The Short is moving well ahead of the channel's other Shorts too, on a day when the channel overall is running at about half its usual pace.
The paper's own summary explains why the name still carries weight in Scotland. Ferris rose in the 1980s as an enforcer for Arthur Thompson, and in 1992 he was cleared of murder at the end of what the Sun describes as the longest-running gangland trial in Scottish criminal history.
The comments came in several times faster than on a usual first day. Some viewers ask why his death is news at all. Others remark that he lived to 62 given the life he led, and a few leave short farewells, one of them from someone who says they remember him from school.
It is the kind of story the channel's own about page promises: Scotland's gangland and the notorious figures behind it.
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- Channel
- The Scottish Sun
- Subscribers
- 478,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 420,843
- Channel views, pace per day
- 28,662 (on a normal day: 62,680)
- Video published
- October 7, 2026
- Video views so far
- 54,951 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 89,746
The numbers
The figures show two videos on the same death running far ahead of the channel's usual, on an otherwise quiet day.
