{"id":84407,"date":"2025-05-08T10:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T10:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/84407\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T10:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T10:50:10","slug":"taxi-firm-firebombed-near-glasgow-in-latest-sinister-attack-linked-to-gangland-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/84407\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi firm FIREBOMBED near Glasgow in latest sinister attack &#8216;linked to gangland war&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A TAXI firm has been torched amid claims it&#8217;s the latest attack linked to Scotland&#8217;s raging gang war.<\/p>\n<p>Deuce Private Hire in Muirhead near Stepps was set alight in an early morning blitz.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fire-damaged Deuce Private Hire taxi firm.\" height=\"720\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/NINTCHDBPICT000993020726.jpg\" data-caption=\"A taxi firm has been targeted in a fire attack in Muirhead, North Lanarkshire\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/NINTCHDBPICT000993020726.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1<\/p>\n<p>A taxi firm has been targeted in a fire attack in Muirhead, North Lanarkshire<\/p>\n<p>Cops and a fire investigation squad were today guarding the scene of the property that has clear signs of fire damage.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives were seen outside the unit that&#8217;s the latest in a long line of homes and businesses targeted over alleged connections to the notorious Daniel clan and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/where\/edinburgh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edinburgh<\/a> crime boss Mark Richardson.<\/p>\n<p>It comes amid a wave of arrests across the country in connection with a two-month long campaign of violence.<\/p>\n<p>The feud is said by sources to be linked to a dodgy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/topic\/cocaine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cocaine<\/a> deal involving Richardson associates and a fugitive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/news\/14590800\/fugitive-waging-war-mark-richardson-spooked-police-raids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scots hood based in Dubai<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A source familiar with the ongoing carnage said: &#8220;This shows there is no sign of this madness ending any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been going for months now and it looks like there is more to come.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s relentless and the fear is someone is going to get seriously hurt before it&#8217;s over.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last week, we told how a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/news\/14722627\/scotland-gang-war-daniel-lyons-richardson-firebombed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">van believed to be linked to the Daniel crime family had been torched<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/where\/glasgow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Glasgow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The white <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/topic\/citroen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Citreon<\/a> Berlingo was destroyed outside properties in the Bardowie area of the city&#8217;s Possilpark.<\/p>\n<p>The spot is understood to be close to the home of a Daniel family member.<\/p>\n<p> Woman, 72, &amp; boy, 12, attacked by Daniel rivals as escalating gangland feud takes sinister twist<\/p>\n<p>Underworld sources claimed it\u2019s the latest\u00a0attack\u00a0linked to a months-long turf\u00a0war\u00a0blighting communities in Scotland\u2019s two biggest cities.<\/p>\n<p>Cops\u00a0probing the ongoing\u00a0violence\u00a0have made around 20 arrests linked to the carnage and have pledged to nick more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A TAXI firm has been torched amid claims it&#8217;s the latest attack linked to Scotland&#8217;s raging gang war.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,188,1102,918,4884,529,530,712,5120,5119,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-84407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-glasgow","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-police","14":"tag-police-scotland","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\/114471831111492123","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84407","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=84407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}