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How Scottish crimelords tried to slice the face off a deadly rival who will remember attack 'every time he looks in the mirror' - as gang war explodes again with Spanish executions
Scotland is in the grip of a deadly gang war with tensions now spilling over to Spain after violent executions rocked the sunny shores of the Costa del Sol.
Ross Monaghan and Eddie Lyons Jnr - senior figures from the feared Lyons clan - were killed by a masked gunman as they were watching Saturday's Champions League final at Monaghans Irish pub in Fuengirola.
Horrific CCTV shows the two gang members being shot at close range before the killers escaped.
The assassinations are feared to be the latest chapter in a bloody feud between the Lyons crime family and their bitter rivals, the Daniels.
But this is not the first time that the Scottish crimelords have lashed out with life-changing consequences.
In 2017 Steven 'Bonzo' Daniel of the Daniels clan was left with gruesome facial scars after a botched attempt on his life by a rival Glaswegian gang the Lyons.
The gangster, 45, had been enjoying a Rangers vs. Aberdeen football match in Ibrox, west Glasgow on May 18, when he was followed through the city.
His bitter rivals from the north of the city were able to track him after sticking a state of the art tracker to his Skoda Octavia.
Following him through the city, a Volkswagen Golf deliberately rammed the 45-year-old while another Audi S3 joined in on the chase forcing Daniel to speed off to escape.
In a court case from 2017, reported by The Sun, the Scottish career criminal believed he was driving at 100mph as he sped down the M8 and was so desperate to escape the assassination attempt he considered driving on the opposite side of the motorway.
Daniel was then rammed on on-ramp on a slip road on to the M8 and all he could remember was skidding towards a pole on the road before passing out.
He claimed he could not remember being brutally attacked but he was viciously hit and sliced with a cleaver, a hammer and a series of bladed weapons which left his face almost sliced off.
The horrific attack left the Daniel clan-member in hospital for several weeks as surgeons worked to repair his damaged face.
Almost a decade after the gruesome attack, Daniel's face still bares the marks with bulging scars across his cheeks and around his eyes.
Rival Lyons gang members Brian Ferguson, 37, Andrew Gallacher, 40, Robert Pickett, 53, Andrew Sinclair, 32, John Hardie, 35, and Peter Bain, 45, were convicted of a series of murder bids on members of the Daniel clan.
The judge Lord Frank Mulholland told the six at the time that Daniel 'will be reminded of what happened every time he looks in the mirror. His family will be reminded when they look at him.'
The two families have been in a bitter war for almost 20 years and tensions seemed to have increased with Edinburgh and Glasgow being terrorised by a wave of firebombings.
The recent attacks in Scotland are said to be targeting the criminal empire of cocaine trafficker Mark Richardson and Daniel.
Reports suggest the latest stage of the feud erupted after Richardson's associates stole a £500,000 stash of cocaine from an ambitious Dubai-based kingpin known as Ross 'Miami' McGill. The Lyons are now said to be supporting McGill in his war on Richardson.
McGill is a former Rangers ultra who once headed up the Union Bears, the club's most hardcore group of fans. He was even given a send-off by then-manager Steven Gerrard when he gave up the leadership role in 2021.
The Lyons, from the Milton housing scheme in North Glasgow, sparked the original war after allegedly stealing a £20,000 cocaine stash belonging to the Daniels, from nearby Possil, during a party.
Five years later, gunmen James McDonald and Raymond Anderson walked into Applerow Motors in Lambhill, north Glasgow - owned by David Lyons - and opened fire in retaliation.
David's nephew Michael Lyons, 21, was killed, while Steven Lyons - Eddie Jnr's brother - was shot in the leg and back. Robert Pickett was left in a coma and lost a kidney.
Dozens of tit for tat shootings and killings have happened in the years since.
Monaghan himself was a suspect in the 2010 murder of Daniels member Kevin 'Gerbil' Carroll in the car park of a Glasgow Asda. He was charged over the shooting but the case was later dropped.
In August 2017, Monaghan and Lyons Jr were cleared of being involved in a brutal street attack on three men outside the Campsie bar in Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire.
Monaghan later fled to Spain after being shot in the shoulder while dropping his child off at a Glasgow primary school that same year.
