Deuce Private Hire in Stepps was torched in the early hours of Thursday morning.
12:34, 08 May 2025Updated 13:10, 08 May 2025
A taxi firm near Glasgow has been targeted in a firebomb attack.
Deuce Private Hire in Stepps was torched just before 2am on Thursday morning.
The Record understands the unit is the latest business targeted over alleged connections to the notorious Daniel clan and Edinburgh crime boss Mark Richardson.
Police say they are treating the incident as wilful.
Detectives were seen outside the burnt out taxi firm. The unit has been cordoned off as an investigation continues.
Detectives are probing the firebomb attack(Image: Tony Nicoletti/Daily Record)
There were no reports of any injuries.
Pictures from the scene show numerous officers standing guard as police tape is placed around the unit. The main window on the front of the office has been boarded up.
Another image shows CID officers examining the scene with one officer pictured standing at the front door wearing blue forensic gloves. A Scottish Fire and Rescue vehicle is also parked round the side of the building.
It is the latest in a series of incidents across Glasgow and Edinburgh that are being probed amid a gangland turf war.
The ongoing feud is believed to have started after a “Mr Big” gangster based in Dubai had a stash of cocaine stolen.
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The taxi firm was set ablaze in the early hours of Thursday morning(Image: Tony Nicoletti/Daily Record)
Sources say trouble flared between rival factions after hoods linked to caged cocaine baron Mark Richardson were accused of stealing the drugs worth £500,000.
The turf war spread from Edinburgh to Glasgow – with the notorious Daniel crime clan becoming prime targets due to their connections with the Richardsno mob.
Mr Big’s enforcers, a faceless group by the name of Tamo Junto, have called out their prime targets in a series of videos of recent weeks.
It comes as we told how as Mark Richardson’s brother Dale’s home was targeted earlier this week.
Crime clan rivals of the cocaine kingpin attacked the home of his younger sibling Dale in Edinburgh on Tuesday morning.
Two taxis were also torched in the city as cops launched probes into both incidents.
Images show blue tarpaulin covering a window after officers attended the home of 35-year-old Dale in Bellenden Gardens at around 8.50am.
A taxi car was torched in Gorgie Road, Edinburgh(Image: Daily Record)
A few hours earlier, at 4.40am, two vehicles were firebombed at a car park on Gorgie leased by cab company MH Executive Limited.
Pictures show a white Toyota Corolla covered in scorch marks. A silver Seat Toledo was also photographed with what appears to be damage to the rear windscreen.
A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “Police were called to a report of a fire at a business premises in Cumbernauld Road, Stepps, around 1.50am on Thursday, 8 May, 2025. Emergency services attended and the fire was extinguished. There were no reports of any injuries.The incident is being treated as a wilful fire raising and enquiries are ongoing.”
A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said: “We were alerted at 2.49am on Thursday, 8 May to reports of a fire at a commercial premises near Chryston, North Lanarkshire.
“Operations Control mobilised three appliances to the town’s Cumbernauld Road, where firefighters extinguished a fire involving external signage.
“Crews thereafter left the scene. There were no casualties.”