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Gangland funeral for gunned down hoods Eddie Lyons and Ross Monaghan takes place in Glasgow
Mob land mourners gathered at Bishopbriggs Crematorium in the north of the city as the hoods were given a double send off.
Slain gangsters Eddie Lyons and Ross Monaghan are being laid to rest together as a double funeral takes place in Glasgow.
Mob land mourners began arriving at Bishopbriggs Crematorium in the north of the city ahead of the service at 3pm on Friday before two silver funeral cars carrying two coffins arrived at the site.
A huge crowd, dressed in black and draped in designer gear, queued to gain entry into the building as they waited for the cortege to arrive.
Women cried and held each other while a number of male associates of the pair stood together to form two parallel lines at the entrance to the crematorium in "guard of honour".
More than 100 cars were seen at the premises, many of them large, dark SUVs with blacked out windows.
Dozens of vehicles were also dumped on the road outside the crematorium as people flocked in to pay their respects to the hoods.
Two private security guards in yellow jackets were also spotted monitoring the scene as they moved around the perimeter of the car park.
Senior mob member Eddie Lyons Jnr and key lieutenant Ross Monaghan were shot dead in a targeted assassination at Monaghan's bar in Fuengirola, Costa Del Sol, on May 31.
The pair were brutally executed in front of horrified tourists who were enjoying a drink after the Champions League final.
Lyons Jr, 46, was on a sunshine holiday with golf buddies from Dullatur Golf Club in Cumbernauld. The group later headed to the Irish boozer owned by long-time pal Monaghan when he was shot dead outside after a masked gunman emerged from a car.
The assailant then stormed the boozer and fired bullets into Monaghan as pub-goers scrambled to flee the scene.
Footage shared in the aftermath showed a woman trying to administer CPR to Lyons on the pavement as a panicked pal shouted "save him".
Horrific CCTV from inside the bar showed Monaghan attempting to flee from the gunman inside the bar. In the distressing clip, he was seen crawling across the floor in his bid to escape as blood from a stomach wound poured from his t-shirt.
The 43-year-old quickly succumbed to his injuries. A nurse told how she held his hand as he lay dying.
Harrowing images later showed Monaghan and Lyons ' bodies covered by white sheets following the fatal attack.
The shootings took place after an explosive gang war erupted in Scotland earlier this year after. The feud was sparked when cronies of cocaine kingpin Mark Richardson ripped off Dubai-based Ross McGill, a former Rangers 'ultras' fan leader, in a £500,000 drug deal.
Richardson's henchman Michael Heeps orchestrated the transaction that ripped off McGill after he was paid in fake notes.
McGill retaliated by launching a relentless and violent vendetta of shootings an firebombings led by his sinister 'Tamo Junto' group - dragging anybody associated with Richardson into the feud - including the notorious Daniels crime clan.
Both Monaghan and Lyons were senior members of the Lyons crime clan who have been involved in a long-running feud with the rival Daniel family dating back almost 25 years.
Spanish police chiefs investigating the double murder said it was linked to a rivalry with the Daniel family.
This claim has been refuted by Police Scotland, who insist the double deaths are "not linked" to the ongoing gang war on home turf.
When asked earlier this month if the gunman belonged to the Daniels crime family, Malaga -based police chief, Pedro Agudo Novo, told reporters: "Yes. Absolutely."
He then added: "The double murder was carried out by a professional killer and member of one of the victims' rival gangs. "In this case, we are not talking about an independent hired killer, but an internal member of the rival Daniels gang who ends up assassinating two members of an enemy gang."
Miley Riley, 44, from Liverpool, has since been charged in connection with the incident. He appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court last month and faces an extradition hearing later this year.
Hood Eddie Lyons Jnr survived a previous attempt on his life some 18 years ago when he was ambushed by Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll in Bellshill, Lanarkshire.
Trusted pal Monaghan also brushed with death a number of times throughout the course of his life.
He was cleared of the murder of notorious Glasgow hood Kevin 'Gerbil' Carroll, who was shot dead in a brutal gangland assassination in Asda Robroyston carpark in 2010.
Monaghan was tried for the killing of the Daniels enforcer, but was acquitted in May 2012 after it emerged there was no evidence which placed him at the supermarket at the time of the shooting.
He later fled to Malaga in 2017 after he was shot twice in a gun attack outside St George's Primary School in the Penilee area of Glasgow. When the gunman opened fire, he was pushing a child's buggy.
