{"id":240152,"date":"2025-07-05T13:10:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T13:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/240152\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T13:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T13:10:25","slug":"gangland-wake-held-at-scots-restaurant-after-lyons-hoods-gunned-down-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/240152\/","title":{"rendered":"Gangland wake held at Scots restaurant after Lyons hoods gunned down in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Scots restaurant held the wake for Eddie Lyons Jnr and Ross Monaghan, who were shot dead in a targeted assassination at Monaghan&#8217;s bar in Fuengirola, Costa Del Sol.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1751721019_857_0_CapturePNG.png\" alt=\"Ross Monaghan and Eddie Lyons Jnr\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Ross Monaghan and Eddie Lyons Jnr(Image: Daily Record)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A Scots restaurant has hosted the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">gangland<\/a> wake for slain hoods Eddie Lyons Jnr and Ross Monaghan, who were gunned down in Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Nonnas Kitchen Dullatur in Cumbernauld held the two <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">gangsters<\/a>&#8216; wake following their funeral yesterday (Friday July 5) at Bishopbriggs Crematorium in the north of Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">An order of service, seen by the Record, read: &#8220;Every man <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">dies<\/a> but not every man lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Edward and Ross<\/a>&#8216; family would like to thank you for your support today and always. Thanks to Gordon for conducting the service and thanks to Margaret Fraser Funeral Directors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;The families would like to invite you to join them at Nonnas Dullatur.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_nonnaJPG.jpg\" alt=\"Nonnas Dullatur.\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Nonnas Dullatur.(Image: Google)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Nonnas Kitchen Dullatur and Margaret Fraser Funeral Directors declined to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">comment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Two silver <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">funeral<\/a> cars carrying two black coffins arrived at the Bishopbriggs Crematorium for the 3pm service, carrying floral wreaths, which had the words &#8220;Son&#8221; and &#8220;Dad&#8221; placed inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A fleet of Mercedes vehicles carrying loved ones and the closest <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">associates<\/a> of the pair followed the cortege.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A huge crowd, dressed in black and many draped in designer gear, queued to gain entry into the building as they waited for the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">cortege<\/a> to arrive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A &#8220;<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">guard of honour<\/a>&#8221; was created by a number of male pals of the pair stood together to form two parallel lines at the entrance to the crematorium as women cried and held one another.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_JS374375517.jpg\" alt=\"The car park at the crematorium was full twenty minutes before the funeral service started.\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>The car park at the crematorium was full twenty minutes before the funeral service started.(Image: Reach PLC.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Over 100 cars were seen at the premises, many of them large, dark SUVs with blacked out windows, as two private security guards in yellow jackets monitored the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">scene<\/a> around the perimeter of the car park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">funeral<\/a> service was filled to capacity and around 100 grieving attendees paid their respects while standing outside in the rain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Lyons godfather Eddie Snr, 67, and the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">clan&#8217;s<\/a> close associate Liam Boyle, Liam Boyle, 44, were both in attendance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Boyle, Lyons and Monaghan were all accused of carrying out a <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">brutal attack<\/a> outside the Campsie Bar that left three other men severely injured in April 2016 before the case later collapsed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_JS374385127.jpg\" alt=\"The funeral cars carrying Eddie Lyons and Ross Monaghan arrive.\u00a0\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>The funeral cars carrying Eddie Lyons and Ross Monaghan arrive.(Image: Reach PLC.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The theme tune from Braveheart was played at the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">entrance<\/a> to the crematorium while the Verve&#8217;s Bittersweet symphony was later payed inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A eulogy read to mourners said: \u201cEveryone in this room has been touched by<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"> Edward and Ross<\/a> in some way. Let\u2019s remember them &#8211; the sons, brothers, husbands, dads cousins and the loyal and trusted friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">On May 31, Senior mob member Eddie Lyons Jnr and key lieutenant Ross Monaghan were shot dead in front of horrified tourists, who were enjoying a drink after the Champions League final, in a targeted assassination at <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/scottish-news\/two-men-shot-dead-spanish-35318505\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Monaghan&#039;sLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Monaghan&#8217;s<\/a> bar <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/scottish-news\/two-men-shot-dead-spanish-35318505\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"in FuengirolaLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">in Fuengirola<\/a>, Costa Del Sol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Lyons Jnr and his holiday golfing buddies from the Dullatur Golf Club in Cumbernauld later headed to the Irish boozer owned by long-time pal <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/glasgow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"MonaghanLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Monaghan<\/a> when he was shot dead outside after a masked gunman emerged from a car. The assailant stormed the boozer and fired bullets into Monaghan as pub-goers scrambled to flee the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Footage<\/a> shared in the aftermath showed a woman trying to administer CPR to Lyons on the pavement as a panicked pal shouted &#8220;save him&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_Scots-gangsters-Ross-Monaghan-and-Eddie-Lyons-Jnr-shot-to-dead-in-Spain.jpg\" alt=\"Spanish bar where Ross Monaghan and Eddie Lyons jnr were shot dead\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Monaghans Bar in Feungirola, Spain where double murder took place(Image: Daily Record)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">CCTV from inside the bar showed Monaghan crawling across the floor in his bid to escape from the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">gunman<\/a> inside the bar as blood from a stomach wound poured from his t-shirt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The 43-year-old quickly succumbed to his injuries. Harrowing images later showed Monaghan and <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/Lyons%20crime%20clan\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Lyons<\/a>&#8216; bodies covered by white sheets following the fatal attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The shootings came following the eruption of an explosive gang war in Scotland. The feud was sparked when cronies of Edinburgh <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">cocaine<\/a> kingpin Mark Richardson ripped off Dubai-based Ross McGill, a former Rangers \u201cultras\u201d leader, in a \u00a3500k drug deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Richardson&#8217;s henchman Michael Heeps orchestrated the transaction that scammed <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">McGill<\/a> after he was paid in fake notes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1_JS374006923.jpg\" alt=\"Ross McGill leading the Union Bears in a song.\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Ross McGill.(Image: 2019 Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">McGill retaliated by launching a relentless and violent vendetta of <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">shootings<\/a> and firebombings led by his sinister Tamo Junto group &#8211; dragging anybody associated with Richardson into the feud &#8211; including Glasgow&#8217;s notorious Daniel crime clan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/Lyons%20crime%20clan\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Lyons <\/a>gang, who both Monaghan and Lyons were senior members of, have been involved in a long-running feud with the rival Daniel family dating back almost 25 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Spanish police chiefs investigating the double <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">murder<\/a> said it was linked to the Lyons and Daniel war. However, this claim has been refuted by Police Scotland, who insist the double deaths are &#8220;not linked&#8221; to the ongoing gang war on home turf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Michael Terrence Riley, 44, from Liverpool, has since been <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">charged<\/a> in connection with deaths. He faces an extradition hearing later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Around 18 years ago, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/scottish-news\/scots-gangsters-ross-monaghan-eddie-35319084\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Eddie Lyons JnrLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Eddie Lyons Jnr<\/a> survived a previous attempt on his life when he was ambushed by Kevin &#8220;Gerbil&#8221; Carroll in Bellshill, Lanarkshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Trusted pal Monaghan also brushed with <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">death<\/a> a number of times throughout the course of his life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He was cleared of the murder of notorious Glasgow hood Kevin &#8216;Gerbil&#8217; Carroll, who was shot dead in a<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/glasgow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\" brutal gangland assassination Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"> brutal gangland assassination <\/a>in Asda Robroyston carpark in 2010.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Monaghan was tried for the killing of the Daniels enforcer, but was acquitted in May 2012 after it emerged there was <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/glasgow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"no evidenceLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">no evidence<\/a> which placed him at the supermarket at the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Then he fled to Malaga in 2017 after he was shot twice while pushing a child&#8217;s buggy in a gun attack outside <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/glasgow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"St George&#039;s PrimaryLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">St George&#8217;s Primary<\/a> School in the Penilee area of Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0_WACOMMUNITYQR3.jpg\" alt=\"\"  \/>Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community!<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">You&#8217;ll receive daily updates on breaking news as well as the top headlines across Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Daily Record team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">All you have to do is <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/BZamc48XMaoEqKkIN7GWxV\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">click here if you&#8217;re on mobile<\/strong><\/a>, select &#8216;Join Community&#8217; and you&#8217;re in!<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">If you&#8217;re on a desktop, simply scan the QR code above with your phone and click &#8216;Join Community&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. 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