{"id":124679,"date":"2025-05-23T07:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T07:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/124679\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T07:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T07:38:13","slug":"two-cars-left-burned-out-at-home-of-former-glasgow-taxi-firm-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/124679\/","title":{"rendered":"Two cars left burned out at home of former Glasgow taxi firm boss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two cars left burned out at home of former Glasgow taxi firm bos<\/p>\n

A FORMER taxi firm boss confirmed two burned out cars in his driveway were destroyed by a faulty battery and have nothing to do with the wave of firebomb attacks sweeping the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alex Main, 57, told how fire crews raced to his home in Gartcosh, Lanarkshire, after the vehicles went up in flames just after midnight.<\/p>\n

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The two charred vehicles went up in flames just after midnight in Gartcosh.\"Two<\/a><\/p>\n

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Cops and the vehicles’ owner says the blaze is ‘not suspicious’.<\/p>\n

The vehicles were left charred wrecks after igniting on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

The inferno sparked fears it was the latest in a string of attacks linked to an ongoing gang war involving rival organised crime groups but cops are treating the fire as non suspicious.<\/p>\n

But last night Mr Main – an ex-director of now dissolved Glasgow Airport Cars Ltd and G1 Executive Private Hire – confirmed the fire was caused by a motor malfunction.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cI bought a new Mercedes diesel hybrid some weeks ago and it went on fire the other night there.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what it is but everybody has been thinking it\u2019s the other thing which has been going on.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the fire brigade have said there are no suspicious circumstances, it\u2019s not been petrol bombed or anything like that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe car has got a hybrid battery in it and with the heat the other day it\u2019s just went on fire and it\u2019s caught the other car on fire as well. So there is nothing bad happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

A witness, who asked not to be named, said: \u201cWe were at home and just after midnight we heard a commotion and within minutes the whole place was glowing red with smoke billowing everywhere.
“It was terrifying.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a quiet area and there are kids and families living here.\u201d<\/p>\n

When we told Mr Main of the fears, he said: \u201cI don\u2019t know anything about that because we were in our bed at the time.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI can only go with what the police and fire brigade have said regarding it. That\u2019s all we know.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Police Scotland spokesperson said: \u201cAround 12.30am on Wednesday, we were made aware of a vehicle fire in Beech Grove, Gartcosh.<\/p>\n

\u201cEmergency services attended and the fire was extinguished by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were no injuries and the fire is not being treated as suspicious.\u201d<\/p>\n

We told how cops have made almost 40 arrests over the last two months amid an ongoing campaign of gang violence being orchestrated by a Dubai-based mob boss.<\/p>\n

Read more on the Scottish Sun<\/p>\n

Former Union Bear Ross \u2018Miami\u2019 McGill, 32, is said to have ordered attacks on associates of caged crime kingpin Mark Richardson, 38, and members of the notorious Daniel clan.<\/p>\n

Sources said McGill has the backing of the Lyons crew – the Daniels\u2019 long-standing enemies with whom they\u2019ve been at war for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two cars left burned out at home of former Glasgow taxi firm bos A FORMER taxi firm boss…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,1102,918,4884,14683,530,297,712,5120,5119,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-124679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-glasgow","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-lanarkshire","13":"tag-police-scotland","14":"tag-road-laws","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-scottish-crime","17":"tag-section-newsscottish-news","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114556010783149312","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}