The man was abducted off the streets in Thailand and slashed in the face.
The man was abducted from the street and brutally slashed across the face.
Gangland enforcers have shared a sickening image of the man who sparked Scotland’s violent turf war moments after he was brutally attacked.
The individual, who is shown with severe slash injuries to his face, is the hood who set up the £500k cocaine deal to rip off Dubai-based Mr Big Ross McGill with a payment of fake notes.
The man, who we cannot name for legal reasons, arranged the meeting with McGill for associates of Edinburgh mob boss Mark Richardson earlier this year.
Grabs from latest TMJ video. Guy with slashed face is the middle man who set up the cocaine deal in Dubai.
Furious McGill has since ordered a series of terrifying revenge attacks on Richardson and his close associates, Glasgow’s Daniel crime clan.
A source close his henchmen Tamo Junto (TMJ) claims the group tracked the drug deal middleman down to a bolthole in Thailand to carry out the vicious blade attack.
The image of his injuries was released in a video on Friday as McGill’s men warned Scotland’s gang war is far from over just one day after reports of a truce emerged.
The source said: “McGill got the guy who arranged the deal kidnapped and brought to one of his men who slashed him right across the face.
“He was never going to get away with it. McGill has built up a massive network of connections who are more than willing to help him out.
“The middleman is lucky he wasn’t killed, but McGill was already planning a bigger retaliation.
“He is going to bring down the entire Richardson crew and everyone associated with them.
“What you are seeing playing out on the streets of Scotland now is the result of people thinking McGill is a soft touch and that they could rip him off and get away with it.”
An image of Dubai-based player Ross McGill was released by rivals online.
The source said reports that a truce has been agreed by McGill and his top targets is hard to believe as Tamo Junto vowed to continue their campaign of violence in their latest video.
TMJ state in the clip that anyone linked to either the Richardson or Daniel mobs remain at the top of their hit-list.
A message in the footage reads: “TMJ will continue to target anyone associated with the Daniel family or Mark Richardson.
“There will never be a truce between TMJ and the Gremlins.
“We have terrorised you since March and will continue to do so.
“Some of you have fled your homes.
“Some of you have fled Scotland.
“Some of you sleep with fire extinguishers.
“Some of you have bulletproof windows.
“Some of you have offered us money to leave you alone.
“Some of you have tried to contact us for peace.
“Some of you have offered us information on your own family and friends.”
“We do our talking on the streets. We aren’t going away.
“We will continue to target you. We have no rules or limits.
“We are coming for you.”
The disturbing video also showed a number of firebombings, shootings and blade attacks that TMJ have claimed responsibility for across Edinburgh and Glasgow in recent months.
Among them are two images of the middleman gangster with a huge slash mark running from his ear to his mouth as blood still oozing from the wound.
The war broke out in March when a number of homes and businesses linked to Richardson were targeted in the capital.
Mark Richardson
The violence spread to Glasgow in April after a carpet and flooring unit owned by Daniel enforcer Craig “Rob Roy” Gallagher was torched in Bishopbriggs.
In an attack in the Milton area of the city, a female pensioner and 12-year-old boy were injured after hoods stormed their home looking for a high-ranking member of the Daniel family.
McGill’s men went on to target the home of Steven ‘Bonzo’ Daniel, as well as the properties of his mum Annette, uncle Norman and sister Kelly ‘Bo’ Green.
Steven Daniel aka Bonzo(Image: Daily Record)
And earlier this month, two men were attacked with a machete at a garage owned by Robert Daniel in East Kilbride.
We previously told how McGill was being fed information about the Daniel clan’s movements by their arch enemies, the Lyons family.
But mob boss Stevie Lyons removed himself from the feud amidst a police crackdown on the violence.
The kingpin ordered his footsoldiers to concentrate on the family’s own interests after reports on arrests across Glasgow and Edinburgh filtered through to his Dubai bolthole.
A source said: He said: “The heat from the police is getting too much for Steven and he wants nothing to do with it anymore.
“His mob are still very active in the north of Glasgow, while he is in Dubai and he wants to keep it that way so his lads are now under strict orders to keep out of the gang war.
“They still have their own feud with the Daniel family and if the opportunity presents itself to target any of them they will take it, but it won’t be for Ross McGill.”
The turf war has led to an equally dramatic police operation to catch the thugs.
Chief Constable Jo Farrell named the crackdown Operation Portaledge.
Incidents across the country have led to a total of 41 arrests.