Footage shows moment Land Rover torched at Edinburgh home of mob boss friend
Footage shows the moment a car was 'firebombed' in an Edinburgh driveway belonging to a friend of gangster Mark Richardson.
The white Land Rover Defender was burnt out at the plush home of David McMillan on Thursday evening, after the family 'returned from a shopping trip'. A few weeks earlier, the property was targeted while 'kids slept inside'.
Now, video clips obtained by the Daily Record show the latest attack on the McMillan family. Two shadowy figures can be seen flinging a petrol bomb at the car on his driveway.
A terrifying explosion occurs under the front bonnet and fire is seen rising from the vehicle. Another clip shows a man wearing a black balaclava and black jacket running from the scene as the motor bursts into flames.
While a later video shows the fire service turning up to tackle the blaze as the car is well ablaze. One of the videos was released by the so-called "Tamo Junto" group, which has claimed responsibility for a wave of gangland attacks that have shocked Scotland.
The firebombings and shootings are said to be co-ordinated by a Scottish Mr Big in Dubai - who is seeking to "wipe out" the allied Daniel and Richardson clans. A source said: "The McMillan family including grandkids were at the house when the car was set on fire. You can see the guy who torched the car running away."
Images from the scene show the melted luxury motor in the driveway. It is understood that the thugs responsible made off in a car similar to a Volkswagen Passat.
A Police Scotland spokesperson said: "Around 7.45pm on Thursday, 8 May, 2025, we were called to a report of a vehicle fire on Pitcairn Grove in Edinburgh.
"Emergency services attended, the fire was extinguished and there were no reports of injuries. The fire is being treated as wilful and enquiries are ongoing."
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The McMillan family's £1.2million home in plush Craiglockhart, Edinburgh, was also targeted on April 17. The detached house - which had children sleeping inside - was targeted by two masked thugs who set the front door on fire before fleeing.
The attack happened on the six year anniversary of the assassination of Trainspotting T2 star Bradley Welsh who was pals with McMillan, 54. A source said after the house attack: "There were kids inside the house so McMillan is absolutely raging.
"Kids and women are usually kept out of disputes but these guys are absolutely ruthless. Choosing to target McMillan on Welsh's death anniversary is no coincidence."
(Image: Supplied/Daily Record)
An underworld source explained that Mr Big has turned his attention to Edinburgh again after his enforcers in Glasgow had to lie low due to 'heat' from the police. He added: "Mr Big's enforcers in Glasgow were feeling a lot of heat in Glasgow from the cops so have taken a back step for the time being.
"It was the same in Edinburgh a few weeks ago but there's less police on the streets now so the boys over there are active again. The Daniel family shouldn't get too comfortable because he isn't through with them."
Bradley Welsh's killer, Sean Orman, was also found guilty of the attempted murder of McMillan in a separate machete attack in 2019. David McMillan's son, also named David, told Welsh's murder trial how three masked men burst into his Edinburgh home and one began "hacking" at his father with a blade.
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McMillan snr spent five days in hospital after suffering a fractured skull, a small bleed on the brain, and a double fracture to the arm which needed a metal plate inserted. The younger David told the High Court in Edinburgh at the time about how he fought off a machete-wielding thug using a replica prop from The Walking Dead TV show.
On the witness stand, he said he'd been upstairs at the family home in the city's Morningside with his girlfriend when he heard "screaming from my mum" and "got the impression that someone was in the house who should not have been in the house".
He described grabbing the "lightweight" prop from the hit series about zombies, which looked like a wooden staff wrapped in barbed wire, but was actually hollow and made only of plastic. After going downstairs with the plastic bat, David jnr said he saw "a man standing over my dad in the kitchen hacking at him with a large sword".
He added: "My mum was standing there screaming. My dad was on the floor." David said he'd hit the man attacking his dad over the head and the assailant "stumbled back out the kitchen door" and fell over.
The three men were wearing black tracksuits and woollen balaclavas with holes for eyes which looked like they came from a "robbery movie", he said.
At least one of the other men had a machete, he said, and both looked "a little sheepish" during the actual attack. After closing the kitchen door, David said one of the other men did try to "wrestle" it back open after he closed it and the trio then fled.
A 999 call made by David, who had suffered a hand injury, was played to the court where he said to the operator: "We don't want police. We just need an ambulance."
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