{"id":34267,"date":"2025-04-20T00:51:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T00:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/34267\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T00:51:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T00:51:20","slug":"your-complete-guide-to-scotlands-explosive-gang-warfare-as-key-players-from-rival-mobs-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/34267\/","title":{"rendered":"Your complete guide to Scotland’s explosive gang warfare as key players from rival mobs revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

A BLOOD-soaked underworld feud stretching back decades has been reignited as mobsters battle for supremacy in a terrifying turf war.<\/p>\n

Notorious figures in the Lyons and Daniel clans\u2019 long-running stand-off are coming under explosive attack while enemies jostle for power.<\/p>\n

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Scotland has been engulfed in a bitter gang feud with regular firebombings on city streetsCredit: PA\"Firefighters<\/a><\/p>\n

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A property torched in Edinburgh linked to caged crime kingpin Mark Richardson\"Bullet<\/a><\/p>\n

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Shootings and firebombings have gripped Scotland’s streets amid an explosion of violence<\/p>\n

When the latest explosion of gang violence erupted in Edinburgh <\/a>last month, the mystery mobster suspected of driving the chaos had set his sights firmly on Mark Richardson.<\/a><\/p>\n

It seemed to the uninitiated this was a world away from Glasgow <\/a>as homes and business in our capital city went up in flames.<\/p>\n

Richardson meanwhile was helpless to intervene as he sat in isolation at Low Moss nick amid claims of a murder plot.<\/p>\n

But it wasn\u2019t long before the spectre of the Daniel – Lyons feud emerged as attacks moved west across the country<\/a> with familiar names in the firing line.<\/p>\n

MARK RICHARDSON & THE DANIELS CLAN<\/p>\n

Mark Richardson <\/p>\n

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Edinburgh-based coke baron Mark Richardson, 38, has links to serious hoods across the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He’s currently in isolation at HMP Low Moss while homes and businesses linked to his family and associates are targeted in turf war.<\/p>\n

Steven \u2018Bonzo\u2019 Daniel <\/p>\n

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Crimeboss Bonzo, 45, took over leadership of his family\u2019s firm after the death of his millionaire scrap dealer uncle Jamie from cancer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He controlled the city\u2019s drug trade almost unopposed and preferred to work from their base in a dark corner of Glasgow\u2019s Possil known as \u2018The Jungle\u2019 until the rise of the Lyons mob. <\/p>\n

He assumed control in July 2016.<\/p>\n

Francis ‘Fraggle’ Green<\/p>\n

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Francis ‘Fraggle’ Green is the cousin of Bonzo and son of late boss Jamie.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The crew\u2019s second in command, 42, was best pals with enforcer Kevin \u2018Gerbil\u2019 Carroll and was one of the first on the scene after he was gunned down.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was jailed for more than three years in 2012 for an attack on a gran in the Cairn Bar in Glasgow’s Balornock in 2011.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His sister Kelly was Gerbil\u2019s partner.<\/p>\n

Zander Sutherland <\/p>\n

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Late kingpin Jamie Daniel\u2019s son, Zander Sutherland, 35, appeared in court from custody in January after being arrested by cops in Oslo, Norway.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He allegedly travelled to Hong Kong and then to Scandinavia while on home leave from Castle Huntly open prison near Dundee after a threat was made on his life early last year.<\/p>\n

Craig \u2018Rob Roy’ Gallagher<\/p>\n

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Rob Roy is a Daniel hood, 45, whose carpet outlet business was torched days ago amid an ongoing turf war.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The blaze in Glasgow\u2019s Bishopbriggs came after he was jailed for two years and six months at the start of the month for chasing Lyons rivals with an axe.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was cleared of murdering John Quinn McGregor, 44, near a gang hang-out in Milton in August 2021.<\/p>\n

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Properties linked to Steven \u2018Bonzo\u2019 Daniel <\/a>– nephew of late crime kingpin Jamie Daniel – were set alight and a garage connected to Jamie\u2019s son Francis \u2018Fraggle\u2019 Green was also torched.<\/p>\n

Next on the hitlist was Daniel henchman Craig \u2018Rob Roy\u2019 Gallagher whose business was set on fire<\/a> just days after he was caged for an axe rampage on Lyons associates.<\/p>\n

It comes months after Zander Sutherland – another of Jamie\u2019s sons – fled Scotland amid threat to life fears before he was extradited home from Norway.<\/a><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a threat posted on a video shared by the perpetrators made the link between Richardson and the Daniel clan loud and clear – and allied their enemies to the Lyons crew.<\/p>\n

Mob boss Steven Lyons is said to be thousands of miles away from the ongoing carnage in Spain – but is said to have formed an understanding with James \u2018The Don\u2019 White and the Dubai-based hood known as Miami.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s claimed the initial violence was sparked by a drug deal of \u00a3500,000 in which a Richardson underlings used fake notes to con the desert fugitive Scot.<\/a><\/p>\n

It sparked a wave of attacks across the capital as the vengeful former Union Bear ultra<\/a> – who can\u2019t be named for legal reason – launched a retaliation campaign from his UAE bolthole.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s understood he has the backing of top table hoods in Scotland with sources claiming caged gangster White has a hand in the violence.<\/p>\n

The 48-year-old – who rose to the top of the Gillespie gang<\/a> after top dog bros James and Barry vanished in 2019 – is under close watch at Addiewell nick over suspicions he\u2019s still orchestrating organised crime from his jail cell.<\/p>\n

MIAMI & THE LYONS CLAN<\/p>\n

Miami <\/p>\n

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Former member of Rangers ultras The Union Bears, Miami is a new figure in Scotland\u2019s crime scene who has already made his mark at the top table of organised crime.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He is wanted by Scots cops over allegations related to organised crime.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old, who can\u2019t be named for legal reasons, goes by the name Miami and is said to be the driving force behind the attacks in Edinburgh and Glasgow over a cocaine con.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He has links to more established hoods.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Steven Lyons<\/p>\n

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Absent kingpin Steven Lyons, 44, fled Scotland after rivals left him seriously injured and killed his cousin Michael, 21, during a gun hit at his uncle\u2019s Applerow MOT station in Lambhill, Glasgow, two decades ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Masterminded his gang\u2019s expansion from overseas by building connections with notorious mobsters like the Kinahan cartel. Splits his time between Spain and Dubai.<\/p>\n

Eddie Lyons Sr<\/p>\n

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Steven\u2019s dad, 67-year-old Eddie Lyons Sr ran the infamous Chirnsyde Community Initiative centre where his lads and their pals began their careers in crime in Milton, Glasgow.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The chancer boasted friends in the police, politics and city council and was given more than \u00a31.4m in taxpayers\u2019 cash to run the den \u2014 which was shut in 2006 following the fatal shooting of his nephew Michael, 21.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Local dad Thomas McDonnell was nearly beaten to death at the centre by young thugs known as the Club Boys in 2000.<\/p>\n

Billy \u2018Buff\u2019 Paterson <\/p>\n

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Hitman Billy ‘Buff’ Paterson was part of a masked gang who blasted feared Daniel enforcer Kevin \u2018Gerbil\u2019 Carroll 13 times in the head and chest during a daylight gun attack in an Asda car park in Robroyston, Glasgow, in January 2010.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Paterson, 45, fled to Spain but handed himself in at a police station in Madrid in 2014 and was caged for a minimum of 22 years for his part in the assassination.<\/p>\n

James \u2018The Don\u2019 White<\/p>\n

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James ‘The Don’ White, 47, took control of the Gillespie gang when leaders James and Barry disappeared after fleeing to Brazil six years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Experts estimate he has made \u00a3126million from crime but was jailed for 10 years for leading an operation smuggling cocaine into Scotland from Spain hidden in solar panels.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In isolation in HMP Addiewell over fears he is still pulling the strings from jail.<\/p>\n

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Graeme Pearson, ex director of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency, said even jail does little to stop operations in the cut throat world of gangsters.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cI mean, the fact that somebody\u2019s convicted of organised crime doesn\u2019t give them a P45 or a retirement sheet.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they\u2019re inside, they\u2019re still reaching out to their connections and maintaining an interest. Hence, so many of them come straight back out and go into organised crime yet again.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo people within prison still want to maintain their position, their status.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that can only be achieved if they show a degree of influence in what\u2019s happening on the outside.<\/p>\n

\u201cEqually they have got their own assets to protect on the outside.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout their personality and input, their status on the outside has been curtailed but it still has to be exercised at a distance from within the prison.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo matter who is behind these things, whether it\u2019s the man in Dubai or somebody local, it will take a range of other known criminals to engage and cause action on the streets of Scotland.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no magic that can make activity occur from a distance.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s local people who are involved in this and it will be local criminals who are doing this and therefore they will be the target of Police Scotland and the other law enforcement agencies to bring this to a halt.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure Police Scotland will feel this very personally in taking it forward now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like this story? Watch our documentary on Scotland’s biggest gangster – Jamie ‘The Iceman’ Stevenson\u00a0–\u00a0below<\/p>\n

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