A series of tit-for-tat attacks followed, ranging from shootings to kidnappings, but it would be January 2010 before the feud claimed a second victim.<\/p>\n
Daniel clan enforcer Kevin “Gerbil” Carroll had arranged to meet drug dealer Stephen Glen outside an Asda store in Glasgow’s Robroyston.<\/p>\n
Glen later recalled<\/a> being told: “You’re working for me now, anybody that doesn’t fall in line is going to get banged.”<\/p>\n Kevin Carroll was fatally shot in the head and chest in a supermarket car park attack that lasted 25 seconds [PA Media]<\/p>\n Minutes later Carroll, 29, was sitting in the back seat of an Audi A3 in the car park when a Volkswagen Golf screeched to a halt.<\/p>\n As lunchtime shoppers looked on, two gunmen got out and shot Carroll 13 times.<\/p>\n I was the Daily Record’s crime reporter at the time and was sent to a retail park frozen in time. As darkness fell, the first vehicles were eventually allowed to leave the massive police cordon.<\/p>\n But, understandably, no-one stopped to speak about the most public gangland hit ever carried out in Scotland.<\/p>\n Carroll’s significance was later highlighted in court when it emerged detectives investigating the shooting had compiled a list of 99 potential suspects<\/a>.<\/p>\n In May 2015, William “Buff” Paterson<\/a>, who fled to Spain after the killing, was convicted of murder and told he must serve a minimum of 22 years in jail.<\/p>\n Judge Lord Armstrong told him: “It was not a spontaneous event which happened on the spur of the moment, it was in effect an execution.”<\/p>\n Jamie Daniel’s death, at the age of 58, was the catalyst for the third significant chapter in the story.<\/p>\n It sparked a savage campaign of violence against his associates.<\/p>\n The victims included his successor, Steven “Bonzo” Daniel, who was left with horrific facial injuries after a high-speed car chase through Glasgow in May 2017.<\/p>\n A court later heard a graphic account of how he was attacked with bladed weapons<\/a> after he crashed his Skoda Octavia – which had been fitted with a tracking device – and passed out behind the wheel.<\/p>\n Two years later, six associates of the Lyons family<\/a> were jailed after being found guilty of five murder plots.<\/p>\n Lord Mulholland told them: “You sought to turn Glasgow into a war zone for your feud.”<\/p>\n The Dubai arrests also have a link to the case of Jamie “Iceman” Stevenson<\/a>, who was jailed last year for masterminding a \u00a3100m plot to smuggle cocaine from South America in boxes of bananas.<\/p>\n During his trial, he lodged a special defence of incrimination against three men including Stephen Jamieson, one of the four major gangland figures now believed to be in custody in the UAE.<\/p>\n The High Court in Glasgow heard that Jamieson’s present whereabouts were “unknown”.<\/p>\n Last December, the Lyons\/Daniel feud was introduced to a wider UK audience as the focus of a six-part BBC Gangster podcast.<\/p>\n At that time, much of the content was historical – but by the summer the producers had reason to commission a new episode.<\/p>\n Until recently, Ross McGill was best known to police as the former head of Rangers Football Club’s ultras fan group, the Union Bears. But after a gangland feud erupted in Edinburgh in March, his name began to appear in the tabloids.<\/p>\n Reports suggested McGill, who once co-ordinated chants on the Ibrox terraces, was now orchestrating the wave of violence across the central belt from his new home in Dubai.<\/p>\n The trigger was a falling out between McGill and Edinburgh-based Mark Richardson<\/a> – who has connections to the Daniel crime group – over a drug deal said to involve fake bank notes.<\/p>\n McGill’s relative anonymity contrasted with Richardson, who was jailed in 2018 for his role in what detectives described as Scotland’s most sophisticated crime gang<\/a>.<\/p>\n A house in Pitcairn Grove, Edinburgh, has been targeted multiple times in the feud [BBC]<\/p>\n In April, the attacks spread from the capital to Glasgow and the violence escalated from deliberate fires to terrifying assaults.<\/p>\n A profile of the victims also began to emerge.<\/p>\n They included individuals linked to the Daniel family, which naturally led detectives to suspect the Lyons clan had a significant hand in events.<\/p>\n In one incident, a 72-year-old woman and a 12-year-old boy<\/a> were attacked at a house in Milton in the north of Glasgow.<\/p>\n A 54-year-old man<\/a> was also seriously injured outside his home in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n As the number of incidents spiralled, videos and threats were posted on social media under the banner of Tamo Junta.<\/p>\n The gang is reportedly led by McGill, who goes by the nickname Miami.<\/p>\n This tactic is believed by law enforcement sources to have created tensions with Steven Lyons, who had been content to keep a low profile in Dubai.<\/p>\n Lyons had settled there after initially leaving Scotland for Spain, soon after being injured in the 2006 garage shooting.<\/p>\n But in the space of a few weeks the attacks put some of the country’s leading underworld figures and their associates back under the police spotlight.<\/p>\n Steven Lyons’ criminal alliances include ties to the Dubai-based Kinahan crime group.<\/p>\n He is understood to have forged a relationship with founder Christy’s son, former boxing promoter Daniel Kinahan, while living in the Costa del Sol.<\/p>\n Stephen Dempster, producer of Kinahan: The True Story of Ireland’s Mafia<\/a>, told BBC Scotland’s Scotcast that by the mid-2010s the Lyons group had become bigger and wealthier by tapping into the cartel’s global network.<\/p>\n The BBC journalist also said the UAE was an attractive destination for major criminals.<\/p>\n “There is a level of freedom in Dubai. You can spend your money. There is property to be bought,” he said. “It’s also a place with light touch financial regulation.”<\/p>\n For the most part, Steven Lyons’ business was largely conducted in the shadows – but one night in Spain changed everything.<\/p>\n On 31 May, a lone gunman walked into a beachfront bar in Fuengirola and shot his brother, Eddie Lyons Jnr. The suspect then pursued Eddie’s friend, Ross Monaghan, inside and opened fire.<\/p>\n Both men were pronounced dead at the scene<\/a>.<\/p>\n As the news of their deaths reached Scotland the following morning, there was a genuine sense of shock at the murders.<\/p>\n Eddie Jnr, 46, and Monaghan, 43, were major players in the Lyons crime group. The pair, who were cremated following a double funeral<\/a>, had both survived previous attempts on their lives.<\/p>\n Eddie was shot and wounded in a 2006 attack which was believed to have been carried out by Kevin “Gerbil” Carroll.<\/p>\n Monaghan stood trial for Carroll’s murder before the case against him collapsed<\/a> in 2012. Five years later, he was shot outside a Glasgow primary school<\/a>.<\/p>\n Police Scotland Chief Constable Jo Farrell has vowed to target crime bosses [PA Media]<\/p>\n There was a natural suspicion that the murders were linked to the violence which had played out in Scotland over the previous two months.<\/p>\n But on 3 June, Police Scotland said<\/a> there was currently nothing to suggest the shootings were related to the ongoing gang war, which it is investigating under Operation Portaledge.<\/p>\n This chimed with the observations of some law enforcement sources who said the double hit marked a significant escalation from events in Edinburgh and Glasgow.<\/p>\n In an unexpected twist, a Spanish detective later told reporters that a Liverpool man, arrested in connection with the murders, was a member of the rival Daniel gang<\/a>.<\/p>\n Police Scotland responded by maintaining its original position – that it wasn’t aware of any evidence the shootings were linked to the feud, or had been planned from Scotland.<\/p>\n Later in the month, Chief Constable Jo Farrell<\/a> said detectives were building intelligence to target the leaders of the groups involved.<\/p>\n Her message to anyone directing violence in Scotland from a foreign country was: “We’ll be coming after you.”<\/p>\n Asked what could be done if someone was based in Dubai, Farrell said officers were working closely with the Crown Office and the National Crime Agency “to see if we can get those people back from those countries”.<\/p>\n A number of major international organised criminals are now based in Dubai [Bloomberg via Getty Images]<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2297f434fc11f1ba0cada31b3f60ead1.jpeg\"\/)
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