Brutal gangland executions in Spain discussed by Daily Record crime team
Crime Reporter Norman Silvester speaks at length about the Spain shootings in a new crime podcast launched by the Record this week.
Criminal Record: The Lyons and Daniels gangland feud explained after hoods shot dead in Spanish bar
The team at Criminal Record met today to discuss the brutal gangland killings after Ross Monaghan and Eddie Lyons Jnr were gunned down in Spain.
The two senior Lyons clan members were executed by a gunman at Monaghan's Bar in the Costa Del Sol on Saturday night.
The key lieutenants were assassinated outside Monaghan's bar in Fuengirola amid a violent turf war raging across Scotland since March.
In a brand new podcast, which has been launched by the Record this week, crime reporter Norman Silvester spoke about the killings that shocked the country.
Silvester spoke in detail about what happened on the night as we discussed chilling CCTV footage which showed the gunman inside Monaghan's bar as the pair were assassinated.
The crime specialist then discussed at length the history of the Lyons gang and their bloody feud with the Daniels clan - which dates back more than 20 years.
As Silvester explains, it is claimed the feud between the two crime families first began over control of drugs turf.
In 2001 a large stash of Daniels' cocaine was stolen from a house in the Milton area of Glasgow and sold on to the Lyons.
The rivalry between the two crime family networks has seen shootings, stabbings, hit and runs, firebomb attacks, police corruption and drug trafficking busts.
We also discussed the possibility that the shootings could be linked to Scotland's ongoing gangland war which broke out earlier this year.
Silvester spoke about how the underworld feud first erupted after Edinburgh kingpin Mark Richardson's cronies stole a £500,000 stash of cocaine from a Dubai-based "Mr Big" known as Ross McGill, using fake cash.
The Lyons gang were thought to be supporting Dubai-based McGill who waged a war on Mark Richardson - and associates the Daniels family.
Finally, we discussed the likelihood of the notorious Lyons crime seeking a bloody revenge - and what this might involve.
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