Mob land mourners gathered at Bishopbriggs Crematorium in the north of the city as the hoods were given a double send off.
15:18, 04 Jul 2025Updated 19:22, 04 Jul 2025
Slain gangsters Eddie Lyons and Ross Monaghan are being laid to rest together as a double funeral takes place in Glasgow.
Mob land mourners descended on Bishopbriggs Crematorium in the north of the city ahead of the service at 3pm on Friday, before two silver funeral cars carrying two black coffins arrived at the site.
Floral wreaths carrying the words “Son” and “Dad” were seen placed inside.
The cortege was followed by a fleet of Mercedes vehicles carrying loved ones and the closest associates of the pair.
A huge crowd, dressed in black and draped in designer gear, queued to gain entry into the building as they waited for the cortege to arrive.
Women cried and held each other while a number of male pals of the pair stood together to form two parallel lines at the entrance to the crematorium in “guard of honour”.
More than 100 cars were seen at the premises, many of them large, dark SUVs with blacked out windows.
Dozens of vehicles were also dumped on the road outside the crematorium as people flocked in to pay their respects to the hoods.
Two private security guards in yellow jackets were also spotted monitoring the scene as they moved around the perimeter of the car park.
As the service took place, around 100 grieving attendees stood outside in the rain as the building inside was filled to capacity.
Lyons godfather Eddie Snr, 67, and the clan’s close associate Liam Boyle, Liam Boyle, 44, were both in attendance.
Boyle, Lyons and Monaghan were all accused of carrying out a brutal attack outside the Campsie Bar that left three other men severely injured in April 2016 before the case later collapsed.
The theme tune from Braveheart was played at the entrance to the crematorium while the Verve’s Bittersweet symphony was later payed inside.
A eulogy read to mourners said: “Everyone in this room has been touched by Edward and Ross in some way. Let’s remember them – the sons, brothers, husbands, dads cousins and the loyal and trusted friends.”
Senior mob member Eddie Lyons Jnr and key lieutenant Ross Monaghan were shot dead in a targeted assassination at Monaghan’s bar in Fuengirola, Costa Del Sol, on May 31.
The pair were brutally executed in front of horrified tourists who were enjoying a drink after the Champions League final.
Lyons Jr, 46, was on a sunshine holiday with golf buddies from Dullatur Golf Club in Cumbernauld. The group later headed to the Irish boozer owned by long-time pal Monaghan when he was shot dead outside after a masked gunman emerged from a car.
The assailant then stormed the boozer and fired bullets into Monaghan as pub-goers scrambled to flee the scene.
Footage shared in the aftermath showed a woman trying to administer CPR to Lyons on the pavement as a panicked pal shouted “save him”.
The pair were fatally shot at Monaghans bar
Horrific CCTV from inside the bar showed Monaghan attempting to flee from the gunman inside the bar. In the distressing clip, he was seen crawling across the floor in his bid to escape as blood from a stomach wound poured from his t-shirt.
The 43-year-old quickly succumbed to his injuries. A nurse told how she held his hand as he lay dying.
Harrowing images later showed Monaghan and Lyons‘ bodies covered by white sheets following the fatal attack.
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The shootings took place after an explosive gang war erupted in Scotland earlier this year after. The feud was sparked when cronies of Edinburgh cocaine kingpin Mark Richardson ripped off Dubai-based Ross McGill, a former Rangers “ultras” leader, in a £500k drug deal.
Richardson’s henchman Michael Heeps orchestrated the transaction that scammed McGill after he was paid in fake notes.
McGill retaliated by launching a relentless and violent vendetta of shootings and firebombings led by his sinister Tamo Junto group – dragging anybody associated with Richardson into the feud – including Glasgow’s notorious Daniel crime clan.
Both Monaghan and Lyons were senior members of the Lyons gang who have been involved in a long-running feud with the rival Daniel family dating back almost 25 years.
Spanish police chiefs investigating the double murder said it was linked to the Lyons and Daniel war.
Ross Monaghan and Eddie Lyons Jnr(Image: Daily Record)
When asked earlier this month if the gunman belonged to the Daniels family, Malaga-based police chief, Pedro Agudo Novo, told reporters: “Yes. Absolutely.”
He then added: “The double murder was carried out by a professional killer and member of one of the victims’ rival gangs.
“In this case, we are not talking about an independent hired killer, but an internal member of the rival Daniels gang who ends up assassinating two members of an enemy gang.”
However, this claim has been refuted by Police Scotland, who insist the double deaths are “not linked” to the ongoing gang war on home turf.
Chief Constable Jo Farrell said: “We are supporting Spanish Police following the fatal shootings in Fuengirola. At this time there is no evidence to suggest these deaths are linked to the recent criminal attacks in Scotland or that the fatal shooting was planned in Scotland.”
Michael Terrence Riley, 44, from Liverpool, has since been charged in connection with deaths. He faces an extradition hearing later this year.
Hood Eddie Lyons Jnr survived a previous attempt on his life some 18 years ago when he was ambushed by Kevin “Gerbil” Carroll in Bellshill, Lanarkshire.
Trusted pal Monaghan also brushed with death a number of times throughout the course of his life.
He was cleared of the murder of notorious Glasgow hood Kevin ‘Gerbil’ Carroll, who was shot dead in a brutal gangland assassination in Asda Robroyston carpark in 2010.
Monaghan was tried for the killing of the Daniels enforcer, but was acquitted in May 2012 after it emerged there was no evidence which placed him at the supermarket at the time of the shooting.
He later fled to Malaga in 2017 after he was shot twice in a gun attack outside St George’s Primary School in the Penilee area of Glasgow. When the gunman opened fire, he was pushing a child’s buggy.