Notorious Scottish gangster hangs out with Noel Gallagher and Matt Smith at Oasis backstage party

Daily Mail​

08-07-2025

A notorious Scottish gangster has been pictured hanging out with Oasis stars and a former Doctor Who actor during a backstage shindig at the Britpop icons' reunion gig in Cardiff.
Robert Kelbie, 41, who is a convicted fraudster, was snapped grinning broadly as he rubbed shoulders with the likes of Noel Gallagher.
The Scots crook, who was sporting a VIP badge to the exclusive shindig, also posed alongside former Time Lord Matt Smith, who played the Doctor from 2010 to 2013, as well as Oasis' guitarist, Gem Archer.
Kelbie, of Edinburgh, brazenly shared snaps of his playboy encounter hobnobbing with the A-listers on his Instagram account.
And the former convict uploaded a video of himself at the gig living it up, with the soundtrack of Oasis' hit 'Stay Young', with the caption: '#oasis #oasismania what a great night. They're definitely a must see.'
The tune, with its lyrics 'stay young and invincible, come what may we're unstoppable' could be a veiled dig at his rivals still in the criminal underworld.
Kelbie, now living it up as a flashy boxing promoter, is a known enemy of jailed cocaine kingpin Mark Richardson, 38.
Richardson is currently locked up, while his associates - including feared members of the ruthless Daniel Clan - are engaged in an alleged bloody turf war with Dubai-based Ross 'Miami' McGill and a group dubbed 'Tamo Junto' (TMJ).
Sources have claimed Kelbie is lapping up his party lifestyle while his old rivals are engaged in a bitter feud.
'Kelbie makes out that he's some sort of socialite and pals with the Gallagher brothers and most of these people won't know his past,' one source told the Sun.
McGill, a former Rangers football ultras 'capo', is thought to be orchestrating the war against Richardson and the Daniels from Dubai with TMJ.
Gangsters working for Richardson are believed to have ripped off McGill with £500,000 of fake cash for a cocaine shipment.
The Lyons gang - rivals of of Glasgow's Daniel Clan - were alleged to have fed McGill information on the Edinburgh-based gangsters as he conducted his campaign of revenge.
He is alleged to have ordered knife attacks, shootings and firebombings across the Central Belt sparking a tit-for-tat gangland clash which has been running rampant.
Kelbie - who in 2012 admitted to a £145,000 mortgage fraud - has links to fugitive Irish kingpin and ex-fight promoter, Daniel Kinahan.
Back in 2010, he was shot in the back outside a Bannatyne's Health Club in Edinburgh.
In 2013, a hail of bullets were fired at the hood's home, which was fortified with spiked railings and CCTV cameras.
He later fled his home at Ratho Station, Edinburgh in 2016, after it was blasted by Gerard Docherty, 45 - who was jailed for more than ten years ears in 2018 alongside Richardson and other members of a £200million supergang.
Kelbie has since reinvented himself as a boxing promoter and has previously been pictured rubbing shoulders for former heavyweight champion Tyson Fury.
Other celeb selfies include one of him posing with legendary former Manchester United boss, Sir Alex Ferguson, 82, retired England ace Wayne Rooney and controversial boxing legend Mike Tyson.
Kelbie's latest snap come just days after the funerals of two Scottish gangsters on Friday after they were gunned down in the Costa del Sol.
Top 'Lyons' gang figures Ross Monaghan, 43, and Eddie Lyons Jnr, 46, were shot dead in the hours after the Champions League final at Monaghans bar in Fuengirola, Spain, on May 31.
Their bodies were released to their families by Spanish authorities earlier this week and today their funerals took place back-to-back at a crematorium in north Glasgow.
About 600 wellwishers crammed into Bishopbriggs Crematorium on the outskirts of Glasgow on Friday, with the chapel - which has seating for 120 people - being packed out with standing room only.
An estimated 200 people were forced to brave heavy rain outside as the ceremony was played on TV screens and through speakers, while a guitarist and violinist performed inside at the start or the service.
Mourners attended the funeral despite alleged threats from underworld hoods, which saw the service given a heightened level of security.