Scots gangsters like Ross ‘Miami' McGill able to live free in luxury Dubai bolthole as he poses ‘no threat' to UAE
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HOODS like Ross McGill are left free to enjoy luxury lifestyles in Dubai as they are not deemed a threat to locals, legal experts have revealed.
Radha Stirling - who helps Brits caged in the UAE bolthole - explained how UK justice chiefs run into problems when seeking suspects' extradition.
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Expert Rahda Stirling says extradition from the desert poses a legal challenge.
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Dubai is an attractive location for criminals looking to evade UK justice.
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McGill, 31, set up home in the desert after skipping a court case in 2022 in which he faced claims of being involved in serious organised crime.
The former Union Bears chief - known as 'Miami' - resurfaced earlier this year as an aspiring mob boss waging war on notorious Scots crime kingpins amid claims he'd been ripped off in a £500,000 cocaine deal using fake notes.
A group dubbed Tamo Junto has claimed responsibility for a wave of attacks in Edinburgh and Glasgow on associates of Mark Richardson, 38, and the Daniel crime clan.
But as the chaos has unfolded here, McGill has remained seemingly untouchable in the desert hideaway with UK authorities facing a human rights minefield.
Ms Stirling, founder of Detained in Dubai, said: "British courts have serious human rights concerns, particularly regarding torture, arbitrary detention and lack of due process.
"If the UK were to submit a request for someone like Ross McGill, it would likely be met with pressure to begin extraditing Emirati targets in return.
"This would pose a direct risk to British citizens, especially those accused of politically motivated or financially based offences.
"This means individuals can live quite comfortably in Dubai even when wanted for serious crimes.
"Unless there is a high political incentive, the UAE often chooses inaction - especially when individuals are seen as non-threatening to local interests."
We told how McGill, of East Kilbride, is said to be the driving force behind a gang war that's been raging in Scotland for months.
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And the nation's underworld was rocked when two of its biggest figures were executed in a brutal double slaying on Saturday.
Scottish cops have insisted they have 'no intelligence' to suggest the murders of Lyons gang duo Ross Monaghan and Eddie Lyons Jnr is linked to the chaos here.
But members of the Lyons' bitter enemies in the Daniel clan fear being wrongly blamed for the double murder after being subjected to months of attacks by McGill-linked mobsters.
Meanwhile, it's understood a senior member of the Lyons clan travelled to Spain to identify the bodies but the mum of Eddie Jnr's kids stayed in Glasgow.
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Ross 'Miami' McGill is based in Dubai after dodging Scots criminal court case.
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Eddie Lyons Jnr, left, and Ross Monaghan were shot dead in Spain on Saturday.
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We told how the pair had watched PSG defeat Inter Milan 5-0 when the assassin shot Lyons on the pub terrace then chased Monaghan.
In a statement, Police Scotland insisted there was 'no intelligence' linking the murders to the drugs feud here, which is being investigated via their Operation Portaledge.
The force said: 'The investigation into the fatal shootings in Fuengirola is being carried out by Spanish police. Police Scotland is supporting where requested. We have no officers deployed within Spain.
'There is currently no intelligence to suggest the deaths of these two men in Spain are linked to the recent criminal attacks in Scotland."
The Foreign Office said: 'We are supporting families of two British men who died in Fuengirola.'
Monaghan was cleared over the 2010 gun murder of Daniel enforcer Kevin 'Gerbil' Carroll outside Asda in Robroyston, Glasgow.
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