Death
He was eventually arrested, tried and jailed in the 1990s after ordering the bashing of a business rival. He died of a heart attack in Cessnock Gaol on 28 August 1996, aged 75. He was buried on 3 September 1996 at the Field Of Mars Cemetery, Ryde, New South Wales.
Royal Commission witness
McPherson was one of the witnesses called before the Moffitt Royal Commission into organised crime, which ran from 1973-74.
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