Assault case against Scottish mobster and Kinahan ally Robert Kelbie dropped

Sunday World

5 days ago

He was due to go on trial on two counts
An assault case against Scottish mobster and friend of Daniel Kinahan, Robert Kelbie, has been dropped, the Sunday World has learned.
The 41-year-old was due to go on trial, accused of attacking Malcom Gemmill, by punching him in the head at the Newbridge Inn pub near Edinburgh between August 1 and 30, 2021.
He was also accused of 'acting in an aggressive manner' towards Mr Gemmill and another person, Lacey Moffat, in Tranent, East Lothian in June 2022.
Appearing in Edinburgh Sheriff Court, last February, Kelbie pleaded not guilty to both charges.
His co-accused, Lisa Eardley, of South Gyle, Edinburgh, is alleged to have knowingly or recklessly procured medical information relating to Mr Gemmill without consent and disclosing the information to another at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on June 30, 2022.
She did not appear at the hearing, but entered a plea of not guilty.
The pair were due to go on trial last November; however, it did not go ahead.
The case against Kelbie has been dropped completely, while Eardley is due to go on trial at a rescheduled date of October 27th 2025.
Robert Kelbie, who was recently snapped backstage at an Oasis gig with singer Noel Gallagher, is a boxing promoter who previously worked for Daniel Kinahan's now-defunct company MTK.
The Scotsman, who previously admitted mortgage fraud in 2012, is well-known to Scottish police and has survived three assassination attempts.
In July 2023, Tyson Fury was spotted out and about with Kelbie on a whistlestop trip to Edinburgh, where they popped into a plush cocktail bar while the fighter posed for pictures with tour bus staff.
Fury and Kelbie (far right)
Fraudster, Kelbie, who has links to the Lyons crime clan, became pals with Tyson, who has no links to criminality, after allegedly landing a job working with him three years ago.
He's posted numerous snaps on social media alongside stars such as Mike Tyson, Cristiano Ronaldo, Sir Alex Ferguson and Ronnie O'Sullivan.
Kelbie claimed to have served as director of talent for MTK Global, the boxing promotions firm linked to mobster Kinahan, and was a key player in setting up a now-defunct MTK gym in Fuerteventura.
MTK Global was put out of business after US cops put a $5 million bounty on founder Kinahan's head in 2022.
The previous year Kelbie was with Fury when he kicked out at a taxi in an incident caught on camera while they were on holiday in the south of France.
Kelbie was seen leaning through the passenger's side window while Fury tried to open the door before it takes off without them.
He later uploaded pictures to his Instagram in the resort town that included footage of the boxer and his dad with pints of Stella at a roadside bar.
Kelbie, who has reinvented himself as a boxing promoter, is a sworn enemy of jailed cocaine kingpin Mark Richardson (38) whose associates include members of Glasgow's Daniel Clan, MailOnline reports.
Robert Kelbie
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Gangsters working for Richardson are believed to have ripped off Dubai-based Ross 'Miami' McGill with £500,000 of fake cash for a cocaine shipment.
The Daniel Clan's deadly rivals, the Lyons gang have reportedly been giving McGill, a former Rangers football ultras 'capo', information on the Edinburgh-based gangsters as he conducted his campaign of revenge.
He is alleged to have ordered knife attacks, shootings and firebombing that sparked a tit-for-tat gangland clash.
Back in 2010, Kelbie was shot in the back outside a Bannatyne's Health Club in Edinburgh.
In 2013, a hail of bullets was fired at the hood's home at Ratho Station, Edinburgh which he fled 2016.