Boyle's Boy
"I had committed symbolic parricide while still dithering about the real one," claims Horsley, who insists that you don't have to be Freud - "and I'm talking Clement Freud here," he chortles - to work out that his passionate sexual and emotional involvement with Glasgow's most notorious hardman was all to do with his desperate search for a father figure, since his own late father was "a drunk and a cripple".
Even more shocking, though, than any homosexual liaison with Boyle - who famously turned from criminal to artist while incarcerated in the Special Unit at Barlinnie - is the notion that Horsley's late wife Evlynn was also involved in an adulterous affair with Boyle at the same time. "This was a menagerie trois," says the man who made a million in the art market and then spent it in a year.
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