Edinburgh Mark Richardson's mob and Daniel clan 'flee Scotland' after Spain shooting
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Edinburgh gangster Mark Richardson's mob and key kingpins in the Daniel clan have reportedly fled Scotland after Spanish police claimed the double-murder in Spain was carried out by a rival gang member.
Police in Malaga confirmed on Tuesday the suspect in custody over the murder of Eddie Lyons Jnr and Ross Monaghan in Fuengirola is part of the Daniel clan, based in the west of Scotland.
It comes after Police Scotland said it has no intelligence to link the bloody massacre to the ongoing underworld feud in Edinburgh and Glasgow and they don't believe the double-murder was planned in Scotland.
However, around a dozen senior gangsters from the capital and Glasgow are understood to have fled the country in wake of the shooting, reports the Daily Record.
Spanish cops confirmed the suspected gunman, Michael Riley, 44, was an 'internal member of the Daniel gang' as he was apprehended in Liverpool last week.
Ross McGill's Tamo Junto (TMJ) are believed to be behind a series of firebombings and shootings in the capital since March. The group is also believed to have had senior members from the Daniel and Richardson gangs under surveillance before they vanished.
Head of the rival clan family Steven Lyons has now ordered his henchmen to go after the main players from the Daniel and Richardson mob after losing his two key lieutenants.
An underworld source said: "Nobody knows exactly where they have gone or how long for, but most of them are believed to be in Dubai and the rest are in the Costa Del Sol.
"The TMJ gang were watching closely and hoping to catch one of them out in the open but all of a sudden they just upped sticks and left.
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"They obviously know they are now all very high profile targets after what happened in Fuengirola. Steven Lyons wants serious revenge for the death of his brother and best friend so they are attempting to take themselves out of the firing line.
"But Steven won't be content or even able to grieve properly until he claims some serious scalps from within the Daniel and Richardson gangs.
"Only weeks ago Steven wanted nothing to do with this gang war but now he has been pulled right into the middle of it."
Malaga-based Spanish police chief Pedro Agudo Novo said yesterday he believed the murders were carried out by a killer from within the Daniel family.
He described the 'professional' nature of the hitman and the 'perfect' escape route he had planned, as he quietly slipped out of Spain and into neighbouring Portugal.
The alleged killer caught a flight from Portugal to Leeds. After arriving in Leeds just 15 hours after the murders he moved between three addresses before he was arrested in Liverpool.
Riley, from Merseyside, has been remanded in custody but is expected to be extradited to Spain to face murder charges.
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