Widow of slain Scottish gangster 'The Gerbil' has home firebombed in gang war

Sunday World

15-05-2025

The property, owned by Kevin Carroll's widow, Kelly 'Bo' Green, was attacked in the early hours of Tuesday, May 13
The Glasgow home of murdered Scottish gangster Kevin 'Gerbil' Carroll has been firebombed in an apparent escalation of a simmering gang war.
The property, owned by Carroll's widow, Kelly 'Bo' Green, was attacked in the early hours of Tuesday, May 13.
It has been reported that nobody was injured in the incident at the house on Drumchapel Road, however, images taken at the scene by Glasgow Live show black scorch marks on the property.
Mum-of-three Kelly is the daughter of the notorious crime boss Jamie Daniel who died of cancer in 2016.
She is believed to have two children with Gerbil, who was 29-years-of-age when he was gunned down in the Asda carpark in Glasgow's Robroyston area in January 2010, and he was step-father to her eldest son.
Gerbil was a main enforcer for Scotland's Daniel crime clan who have been locked in a bitter two-decade long feud with their rivals in the Lyons gang.
Daniel Kinahan
The Lyons crime gang have strong ties with the Kinahan Cartel that were forged on Spain's Costa Del Sol in the 2010s.
Before his violent death, the Gerbil had been involved in so-called alien abductions, where his crew used a blowtorch and boiling water to torture victims before stealing drugs, money and weapons from them.
An underworld source told the Daily Record that Kelly and Gerbil's youngest son was believed to have been in the house when it was torched.
'All the Daniel family remain priority targets despite their attempt to broker a peace deal at the weekend,' this source said. 'But this particular attack will have made a lot of people smile all across Scotland.
"Gerbil was a bully and a thief and made so many enemies so a lot of people will be happy to see this happen. Kelly isn't well liked either and has a horrible attitude, like the rest of them.'
Kevin 'Gerbil' Caroll
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According to Scottish media reports, the violence was sparked in March after associates of Edinburgh kingpin Mark Richardson were blamed for ripping off a Dubai-based 'Mr Big' by using fake bank notes to buy £500,000 worth of cocaine.
Mr Big then targeted members of the Daniel clan due to their association with Richardson but after making 32 arrests police appeared to have managed to quell the violence.
The tenuous peace was shattered when a social media account was made by someone from the Daniel and Richardson side mocking Mr Big with the feud erupted again last week.
The Daniel clan has been locked in a violent power battle with their deadly enemies, the Lyons gang, across Glasgow for nearly 20 years.
Last month, it emerged how the Kinahan cartel was fuelling the deadly gangland war in Scotland's underworld.
Following a slew of firebombs and shootings in Edinburgh targeting Richardson's empire, sources told the Daily Record newspaper that the Kinahan cartel was linked to the attacks via their Scottish associates, including head of the Lyons crime family, Steven Lyons.
The 47-year-old, who lives in the United Arab Emirates, reportedly attended Daniel Kinahan's lavish Burj-al Arab Hotel wedding in 2021.
Kinahan and Lyons fell out in summer of 2001 when a large stash of Kinahan cocaine was stolen from a house in the Milton area of Glasgow and sold to the Lyons.
It was previously reported how Lyons, who is in debt to the Kinahans, was growing ever paranoid about his inner circle and made his cronies take lie detector tests.
The 44-year-old hired a lie detection expert to conduct polygraph tests on gang members after a house linked to the Glasgow mobster was robbed of drugs worth £500,000.
Sources told The Sun Lyons is 'on edge' over a series of thefts and police busts that have left him racking up debts with the notorious Irish cartel.
In the wake of a series drugs raids, Lyons forced them to take lie detectors tests In a bid to weed out traitors.
The Lyons stash house was robbed of £500,000 of drugs in November just weeks after cops reportedly seized millions of pounds of drugs in Glasgow.
Six masked men had forced their way into the property in Moodiesburn, Lanarkshire, before making off with a huge cannabis haul.
In May 2022, Scottish MP Russell Findlay described how the Kinahan crime cartel, that had just been sanctioned by the US Government, was working in partnership with the feared Glasgow-based Lyons gang.
The former crime journalist revealed how the Kinahans were described as almost a "Scottish-Irish mob" as the connections were so strong between them.
In October 2022, senior crime buster Gerry McLean, claimed that dismantling the Kinahan cartel from the top would help reduce gangland activity in Scotland.
McLean, Regional Head of Investigations at the National Crime Agency, said that focusing on the Irish mob's leading figures would have a 'much greater impact' than targeting smaller groups associated with the Kinahans.