Stephen ‘Jimmy’ Jamieson is understood to have confronted Dubai-based Mr Big Ross McGill after a string of firebombings were carried out across Glasgow and Edinburgh.
23:47, 10 Jul 2025Updated 11:15, 12 Jul 2025
Scottish gangsters are said to have had a bust-up at a Dubai gym as a gang war continues to rage on the streets of Scotland.
Stephen ‘Jimmy’ Jamieson is understood to have confronted Dubai-based Mr Big Ross McGill after a string of firebombings were carried out across Glasgow and Edinburgh, gangland sources have said.
McGill has been waging a war against targets associated with rival kingpin Mark Richardson, after McGill was paid £500k in fake notes for a haul of cocaine.
Jamieson is one of a number of underworld figures living in Dubai and was reportedly initially supportive of McGill’s plans to oust rival crime groups. However, he is now unhappy with the attention McGill’s war is bringing to gangsters living in Dubai.
Stephen ‘Jimmy’ Jamieson
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A source said: “Jimmy Jamieson chased him around the gym in Dubai.
“Jimmy is unhappy with all the heat he’s brought with multiple fires.
“Ross has vowed revenge on Jamieson’s people in Glasgow for the attack.”
Jamieson, 42, was jailed for eight in 2009 after pleading guilty to supplying cocaine. However, he was released in 2013.
Jamieson was a close friend of James “Iceman” Stevenson, who was jailed last year after admitting masterminding a £100m drug smuggling plot from South America..
The Record previously reported how Jamieson was believed to be part of leveraging a connection between feared Kinahan crime gang in Dubai, Iceman Stevenson and Glasgow gangster Steven Lyons.
An underworld source said: “Steven Lyons and Iceman Stevenson go back a long way. Stevenson may be behind bars but unlike Richardson, his position remains strong.
“Having his good pal, Stevie Jamieson over in Dubai puts him in a position where he can use that Kinahan connection as a lever.”
McGill, who is a former leader of Rangers fan group The Union Bears, launched the feud on the streets of Scotland by ordering his Tamo Junto gang (TMJ) to firebomb and shoot bullets at businesses and homes in Edinburgh and East Lothian linked to Mark Richardson throughout March.
Ross McGill is a former leader of Rangers fan group The Union Bears(Image: 2019 Getty Images)
In April, the war spread to Glasgow as McGill targeted the notorious Daniel crime clan over their long term association with Richardson.
A truce was reported to have been agreed on May 30, but the following day Ross Monaghan and Eddie Lyons were shot dead outside a bar in Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol.
Last month Spanish cops blamed an ‘internal member’ of the Daniel clan, who are long term rivals of the Lyons, for the double murder.