Edinburgh gang war continues in west as thugs torch taxi owned by dad of Mr Big's girlfriend
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The father of the girlfriend of the Scottish gangster orchestrating the ongoing gangland feud across Edinburgh and the west has had is taxi firebombed.
George Newall's black cab was torched outside the family home on Wednesday, May 28, leaving it extensively damaged, reports The Daily Record.
His daughter, Olivia Newall, is the girlfriend of Ross 'Miami' McGill and has moved to Dubai where he now lives.
McGill is believed to be the central figure behind the gangland war which has torn through Scotland in recent months.
The incident occurred on Glasgow's Kingswood Drive in the city's Kings Park district.
One local said: 'We could not believe it. It is a very quiet area around here and then this happens.
'George is a lovely man. Hard-working. Honest and just trying to make a living.
'He does not need this hassle on his own doorstep.'
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It is understood that nobody was injured in the incident, and police are continuing to investigate.
Ms Newall is the cousin of a man called Lloyd Cross who last year was jailed for his part in a £100million cocaine-smuggling plot.
It was masterminded by Jamie 'the Iceman' Stevenson, once dubbed 'Scotland's most wanted man.'
Cross was given a six-year sentence after pleading guilty to serious organised crime and drug offences.
The 32-year-old is a close friend of McGill's having grown up less than a mile away from each other.
Their friendship was also solidified through their involvement in the Rangers ultra group, the Union Bears.
The attack on Newall's cab took place as reports of a truce in Scotland's gang war emerged.
It was claimed that McGill had agreed to pull back on a series of bitter attacks launched against Edinburgh mob boss Mark Richardson and his close associate, Steven 'Bonzo' Daniel, from the notorious Glasgow Daniel crime clan.
McGill has been waging war on the pair since March after Richardson's cronies ripped him off in a £500k cocaine deal.
A number of properties, cars and business linked to Richardson and Daniel have been torched and shot at in recent months while pals of the hoods have been attacked with machetes.
Neither kingpin appears to have retaliated against McGill until news of Newall's taxi emerged, just days before two key Lyons lieutenants were brutally executed in Spain.
Eddie Lyons jnr and Ross Monaghan were gunned down at a bar in Fuengirola on Saturday night.
We previously reported that the Lyons, sworn enemies of the Daniel family, were understood to be feeding McGill information about the whereabouts of his key targets.
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