{"id":354087,"date":"2025-08-18T11:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/354087\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T11:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:45:16","slug":"scots-gang-war-reignited-as-edinburgh-taxi-firm-torched-in-early-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/354087\/","title":{"rendered":"Scots gang war reignited as Edinburgh taxi firm torched in early hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men have been arrested by cops in connection with the incident in the early hours of Monday.<\/p>\n<p>12:16, 18 Aug 2025Updated 12:35, 18 Aug 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_Screen-Shot-2025-08-18-at-121350.png\" alt=\"Capital Cars\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Capital Cars(Image: Google)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Two men have been arrested after the offices of a taxi firm believed to be linked to the Scots gang war were torched.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The offices of Capital Cars on Gorgie Road were torched in the early hours of the morning after a lull in the violence in recent months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Cops moved quickly and arrested two men, aged 25 and 26, following the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The firm was previously targeted in May when two cars were torched outside the premises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Mob boss Mark Richardson&#8217;s brother, Dale, was also targeted on the same day when yobs smashed the windows of his house in the city.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1_JS368073027.jpg\" alt=\"Police and investigators from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service at the scene.\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Police and investigators from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service at the scene in May. (Image: Reach PLC.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The gang war erupted on the streets of Edinburgh in March when Dubai-based gangster Ross McGill&#8217;s Tamo Junto (TMJ) gang start to go after Richardson over a haul of cocaine paid for with fake bank notes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The TMJ gang torched properties and businesses throughout the capital city through month, before moving on to Glasgow in April when they went after Richardson associates in the Daniel clan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Senior members of the Daniel and Richardson gangs were targeted in chilling machete attacks before the fued escalated Eddie Lyons and Ross Monaghan were murdered at a bar in Spain in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The Police Scotland investigation on the gang war in Edinburgh and Glasgow, Operation Portaledge, has led to 55 people being arrested so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokesperson for the force said: &#8220;Around 3am on Monday, August 18, we were made aware of a wilful fire at a premises in Gorgie Road, Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Emergency services attended, however the fire had not taken hold and there was no significant damage<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;There were no reports of any injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Two men, aged 25 and 26, were arrested in connection and enquiries are ongoing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have been arrested by cops in connection with the incident in the early hours of Monday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,530,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-354087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-police-scotland","12":"tag-scotland","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115049603181777441","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354087","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=354087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}