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Scottish Sun
2 days ago
- Scottish Sun
Man, 30, injured in Scots murder bid as police raid home in frantic hunt for culprit
An onlooker said: 'It was complete chaos down here' STREET DRAMA Man, 30, injured in Scots murder bid as police raid home in frantic hunt for culprit Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) COPS have stormed a property amid an ongoing attempted murder probe. Officers wearing protective gear were summoned today to two locations in Lochgelly, Fife. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 2 Police Officers wearing protective black gear stormed a property in Fife Credit: Fife Jammer Locations / Facebook The alarm was raised after a man with horror injuries showed up at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy. A search warrant was executed with cops attending two addresses in a bid to further the investigation. One onlooker said: "It was complete chaos down here today. "The police came rushing into the street before marching to a nearby house." Detectives are urging anyone with information to contact the non-emergency 101 number. A Police Scotland spokesperson said: 'Around 1.40pm on Sunday, 20 July, officers executed a warrant at a property in the Main Street area of Lochgelly after an injured man attended at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy. 'The 30-year-old man had sustained a serious injury and was transferred to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh on Saturday, 19 July, for further treatment. The incident is being treated as attempted murder. 'Police also attended Buller Street in connection with the incident. 'No one has been arrested and enquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances.' Elsewhere, three women have been charged under terror laws after a van crashed into a security fence at a defence firm. Execution of gangsters Ross Monaghan & Eddie Lyons Jnr in Spain WAS linked to Scots turf war, senior cops claim Cops rushed to the Leonardo factory on Crewe Road North in Edinburgh on Tuesday. A light blue Ford Transit van was seen jammed up against a damaged metal perimeter fence as a group of protesters climbed onto the vehicle's roof. A Palestine flag was draped from the rear of the vehicle as the activists sat just feet away from the defence facility's razor wire-topped fence. Officers arrested three women, aged 31, 34 and 42, and they have today been charged under the Terrorism Act 2000.
Sunday World
07-07-2025
- Sunday World
Episode 1081: Hundreds attend funeral of Scottish mobsters shot dead in Fuengirola
Ross Monaghan and Eddie Lyons Jnr were shot dead last month, but will there be reprisals? The funerals of murdered gangland heavies Ross Monaghan and Eddie Lyons Jnr took place in Scotland yesterday as police doubled down on their insistence that their killing had nothing to do with local feuds. While Spanish police say they have identified and wish to extradite a hitman linked to the rival Daniel's clan, cops in Glasgow say they have no intelligence to suggest the motive for the murders is the decades old feud. Nicola speaks with journalist Richard Elias about the deepening mystery around what happened on the Costa Del Sol and how the Kinahan organisation were one of the first to offer their sympathies for the shootings of gang boss Stephen Lyon's brother and best friend. MORE EPISODES
Daily Record
05-07-2025
- Daily Record
Gangland wake held at Scots restaurant after Lyons hoods gunned down in Spain
A Scots restaurant held the wake for Eddie Lyons Jnr and Ross Monaghan, who were shot dead in a targeted assassination at Monaghan's bar in Fuengirola, Costa Del Sol. A Scots restaurant has hosted the gangland wake for slain hoods Eddie Lyons Jnr and Ross Monaghan, who were gunned down in Spain. Nonnas Kitchen Dullatur in Cumbernauld held the two gangsters ' wake following their funeral yesterday (Friday July 5) at Bishopbriggs Crematorium in the north of Glasgow. An order of service, seen by the Record, read: "Every man dies but not every man lives. " Edward and Ross ' family would like to thank you for your support today and always. Thanks to Gordon for conducting the service and thanks to Margaret Fraser Funeral Directors. "The families would like to invite you to join them at Nonnas Dullatur." Nonnas Kitchen Dullatur and Margaret Fraser Funeral Directors declined to comment. Two silver funeral cars carrying two black coffins arrived at the Bishopbriggs Crematorium for the 3pm service, carrying floral wreaths, which had the words "Son" and "Dad" placed inside. A fleet of Mercedes vehicles carrying loved ones and the closest associates of the pair followed the cortege. A huge crowd, dressed in black and many draped in designer gear, queued to gain entry into the building as they waited for the cortege to arrive. A " guard of honour" was created by a number of male pals of the pair stood together to form two parallel lines at the entrance to the crematorium as women cried and held one another. Over 100 cars were seen at the premises, many of them large, dark SUVs with blacked out windows, as two private security guards in yellow jackets monitored the scene around the perimeter of the car park. The funeral service was filled to capacity and around 100 grieving attendees paid their respects while standing outside in the rain. Lyons godfather Eddie Snr, 67, and the clan's close associate Liam Boyle, Liam Boyle, 44, were both in attendance. Boyle, Lyons and Monaghan were all accused of carrying out a brutal attack outside the Campsie Bar that left three other men severely injured in April 2016 before the case later collapsed. The theme tune from Braveheart was played at the entrance to the crematorium while the Verve's Bittersweet symphony was later payed inside. A eulogy read to mourners said: 'Everyone in this room has been touched by Edward and Ross in some way. Let's remember them - the sons, brothers, husbands, dads cousins and the loyal and trusted friends.' On May 31, Senior mob member Eddie Lyons Jnr and key lieutenant Ross Monaghan were shot dead in front of horrified tourists, who were enjoying a drink after the Champions League final, in a targeted assassination at Monaghan's bar in Fuengirola, Costa Del Sol. Lyons Jnr and his holiday golfing buddies from the Dullatur Golf Club in Cumbernauld 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 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". CCTV from inside the bar showed Monaghan crawling across the floor in his bid to escape from the gunman inside the bar as blood from a stomach wound poured from his t-shirt. The 43-year-old quickly succumbed to his injuries. Harrowing images later showed Monaghan and Lyons ' bodies covered by white sheets following the fatal attack. The shootings came following the eruption of an explosive gang war in Scotland. The feud was sparked when cronies of Edinburgh cocaine kingpin Mark Richardson ripped off Dubai-based Ross McGill, a former Rangers 'ultras' leader, in a £500k drug deal. Richardson's henchman Michael Heeps orchestrated the transaction that scammed McGill after he was paid in fake notes. McGill retaliated by launching a relentless and violent vendetta of shootings and firebombings led by his sinister Tamo Junto group - dragging anybody associated with Richardson into the feud - including Glasgow's notorious Daniel crime clan. The Lyons gang, who both Monaghan and Lyons were senior members of, 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 the Lyons and Daniel war. However, this claim has been refuted by Police Scotland, who insist the double deaths are "not linked" to the ongoing gang war on home turf. Michael Terrence Riley, 44, from Liverpool, has since been charged in connection with deaths. He faces an extradition hearing later this year. Around 18 years ago, Eddie Lyons Jnr survived a previous attempt on his life 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. Then he fled to Malaga in 2017 after he was shot twice while pushing a child's buggy in a gun attack outside St George's Primary School in the Penilee area of Glasgow. Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community! 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BBC News
04-07-2025
- BBC News
Double funeral for Lyons crime clan pair shot dead in Spanish bar
A joint funeral has been held for two major crime figures more than a month after they were shot dead in a Spanish Lyons Jnr and Ross Monaghan were gunned down in a beachfront bar in Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol on 31 May. Both men had spent the evening watching the Champions League final before they were targeted, just before midnight, by a lone gunman. Michael Riley, 44, from Liverpool, has been accused by Spanish police of the murders with a full extradition hearing scheduled for later this year. On Friday hundreds of mourners gathered to pay their respects to Lyons Jnr, 46, and Monaghan, 43, at Bishopbriggs Crematorium in East Dunbartonshire. Both men were linked to the Lyons crime group, which is based in the west of has been engaged in a violent feud with the Daniel family and their associates which dates back more than two Jnr survived a previous attempt on his life 18 years ago when he was ambushed by Daniel clan enforcer Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll in Bellshill, followed an incident which was widely credited with taking the rivalry with the Daniel family to another November 2006 Carroll allegedly used a 4x4 and a tow rope to topple the headstone of Eddie Jnr's brother, Garry, who was only eight when he died of leukaemia in 1991. The following month two men in a blue Mazda pulled up outside a garage in Lambhill, in the north of Anderson and James McDonald put on old man face masks, then walked into Applerow Motors and opened owner, David Lyons, took cover but his 21-year-old nephew Michael - Eddie Jnr's cousin - was shot brother, Steven, was injured along with his associate Robert feud claimed a further victim on 13 January 2010 when Carroll was shot dead outside an Asda in Robroyston, Glasgow, which was busy with lunchtime shoppers. Mongahan was arrested over the murder in August 2010 but he was acquitted in May 2012 after a judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence to convict than five years later he was shot in the shoulder outside a Glasgow primary school after dropping his child gunman was pushing a child's buggy when he opened fire on Muirdykes Road near St George's Primary, associates of the Daniel group were both cleared of the attack at a trial but were later convicted for other organised crime is believed to have moved to Spain soon after the school was reported that he owned the Costa del Sol bar, bearing his name, where he and Lyons Jnr were has since reopened under a new double murder follows a wave of gangland violence in Scotland since has resulted in a series of assaults, shootings and firebombings against individuals linked to the Daniel group in the east and west of the working on Operation Portaledge, set up in response to the violence, have so far made 50 arrests. Police Scotland has maintained it has no evidence the double murder is linked to the feud, despite conflicting claims by a senior Spanish Supt Pedro Agudo Novo last month confirmed Lyons and Monaghan were killed within seconds of each other by a lone gunman who fled the scene on to the officer, the suspect's gun jammed after he killed Lyons Jnr with a single shot outside the then pursued Monaghan inside and fired two more shots which proved Supt Agudo Novo last month highlighted the "professionalism" of the shootings and the suspect's "perfectly planned" escape from also alleged that the killer was a member of the Daniel crime Scotland News understands that investigators in Spain and in Scotland were surprised by Chief Supt Agudo Novo's public position of Scottish detectives is that there is "no current evidence" linking the shootings to the Daniel response to Chief Supt Novo's comments, Police Scotland repeated the carefully-worded statement they issued three days after the last week Chief Constable Jo Farrell said the force "wasn't aware" of any evidence the murders were linked to the feud, or had been planned from Riley, of Huyton, was arrested on an international arrest warrant in the Liverpool area on 13 June in connection with the 20 June, Mr Riley appeared before Westminster Magistrates' Court in by the court clerk if he wished to give his consent to be extradited back to Spain, he replied: "No, I do not."Mr Riley, who was remanded in custody, will return to court in October for an extradition hearing.
Daily Mail
04-07-2025
- Daily Mail
Brave mourners gather for funeral of notorious Scottish 'Lyons' gangsters gunned down in the Costa del Sol despite warnings 'anyone who attends will be treated the exact same way'
Mourners have turned out for the funerals of two Scottish gangsters gunned down in the Costa del Sol despite being warned they could face violent repercussions. Top 'Lyons' gang figures Ross Monaghan, 43, and Eddie Lyons Jnr, 46, were shot dead in the hours after the Champions League final at Monaghans bar in Fuengirola, Spain on May 31. Their bodies were released to their families by Spanish authorities earlier this week and today their funerals took place back-to-back at a crematorium in north Glasgow. Neither Monaghan nor Lyons Jnr's name appeared on an early running order of services held at the funeral home on Friday - with both listed as 'private services'. Their names later appeared on a digital display of services displayed in the reception area of Bishopbriggs Crematorium in north Glasgow, a short drive from the Possilpark and Milton areas where the Lyons clan is believed to operate. Ahead of the ceremonies, anonymous online thugs issued a chilling threat via social media, warning attendees they would be considered allies of the pair and a Dubai-based 'Mr Big' with whom the Lyons were said to be affiliated. The post reads: 'Anyone who attends the funeral of Edward and Ross this week will be treated the exact same way as them. 'This is now time to fight fire with fire. Family and friends take note. One man and his ego caused all this.' The threat issued to mourners planning to attend Ross Monaghan's and Eddie Lyons Jnr's funerals, issued via social media The pair were cremated more than a month after the pair were shot dead at the bar, co-owned by Monaghan, as they sat drinking. A hooded gunman walked up to Lyons Jnr, who was sitting outside, and shot him dead with a single bullet. Monaghan ran inside as the killer, dressed in black, took aim again - before his weapon jammed. Police say the hitman was able to unjam his weapon before training it on Monaghan, who collapsed to the floor as he is struck by multiple bullets. As he crawled across the floor, he appeared to turn to look at his killer. Footage later shows him sitting upright, slumped against a wall. Outside, passersby desperately tried to save Lyons Jnr before police and paramedics covered his body with a blanket. The pair were both senior members of the Lyons crime gang, which has been at war with the rival Daniels clan in Glasgow for decades over the theft of a cache of drugs. Lyons Jnr had been on a golfing trip with pals when he decided to hook up with best friend Monaghan who lived there. A source said this week: 'Things are really beginning to heat up again now, especially in Glasgow. The pair were gunned down outside Monaghan's bar, which Monaghan co-owned, in Fuengirola. It has since been re-named 'A house connected to the Lyons was recently smashed into with a motor. It went straight into the front room with people inside. 'The main figures in the Lyons crew will want to show strength at the funerals but at the same time this will put a target on their backs. 'Their boss Steven lives in Dubai and didn't turn up for the last major funeral so it remains to be seen if he will this time.' Scottish cops initially downplayed any suggestion that a rival gangster in the UK was to blame but senior Spanish counterparts have claimed the killer was a member of the Daniels crime clan. Top cop Pedro Agudo Novo said last month: 'The double murder was carried out by a professional killer and member of one of the victims' rival gangs. 'In this case we're 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.' Following the killings, police arrested suspect Michael Riley, 44, from Merseyside, last month. He has appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court in connection with the killings and remains in custody, pending an extradition hearing, after magistrates deemed him a flight risk. Riley was alleged to be set to flee for a 'paradise island tax haven' before he was detained, according to Spanish authorities. He allegedly used disguises to make his way through Spain to Portugal and then on to Leeds And the hit coincided with an ongoing gang war in Edinburgh and Glasgow that has seen scores of firebombings and beatings - apparently targeting the Daniels and their associate, Edinburgh-based Mark Richardson. A former Rangers football ultras 'capo', named in reports as 31-year-old Ross McGill, is thought to be orchestrating the war against Richardson and the Daniels from Dubai with a faceless group known as the Tamo Junto (TMJ). Gangsters working for Richardson, who is currently behind bars, are thought to have ripped off McGill with £500,000 of fake cash for a cocaine shipment. The Lyons were alleged to have fed McGill information on the Edinburgh-based gangsters as he conducted his campaign of revenge. Staff at Rangers are said to be shocked by McGill's elevation to desert-based gang boss after enjoying a privileged status at the club for years as a leading figure in the Union Bears. He stepped down from the role in autumn 2021, writing on a now-deleted Twitter account that he 'won't be able to attend matches as regularly'. He wrote: 'Sunday will be my final game as Capo in BF1. What a journey it's been but it's time for me to step down from this role. 'Been doing this for a long time and I won't be able to attend matches as regularly. Thanks for so many amazing days & nights in the stands.' He is said to have fled the country after the Encrochat messaging service was cracked by UK, French and Dutch police, exposing thousands of criminals and their illicit activities. A Rangers source told the Daily Record: 'He was trusted by the club more than most of the security staff and was respected by the players, managers and directors. 'Nobody could have had even the slightest idea about his life of crime. We were led to believe that he ran his own business.' 'But it did seem strange that he just walked away from the club after being such a central figure for a number of years.' Monaghan was previously linked to the murder of gangland enforcer Kevin 'Gerbil' Carroll, who was shot dead in an Asda supermarket car park in Glasgow in 2010. He was accused of the murder but acquitted due to a lack of evidence. Monaghan and Lyons Jr were also cleared of being involved in a brutal street attack on three men outside the Campsie bar in Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire In August 2017. Lyons Jnr was also shot and wounded in an attack in 2006, which was believed to have been carried out by Carroll. After Monaghan's brutal execution, it emerged he also ran an online supermarket selling expats a taste of home. He became a director of Costa Shop And Drop after fleeing to Spain following a botched 2017 hit attempt outside a Glasgow primary school in which he was hit in the shoulder as he dropped off his daughter for the day. The gangster sold Walkers Crisps, Weetabix, Colman's Mustard, Pot Noodle snacks and even Irn-Bru with the slogan: 'Craving Your Favourite British Food?' Around 50 people have been arrested in a crackdown on the violence that has spread across Scotland's central belt in recent months. Police Scotland's chief constable Jo Farrell said last week she was still unaware of any alleged link between the Spanish killings and the ongoing warfare in Scotland. And she has warned foreign-based criminals like McGill that her officers were working with prosecutors and the National Crime Agency - Britain's FBI - to bring them to justice, telling the BBC: 'We'll be coming after you.' She added of the recent spate of arrests amid ongoing violence: 'We've created a lot of momentum and gained a lot of evidence and intelligence. 'We can see the temperature dropping in this space.' Monaghans pub, meanwhile, has reopened under a new name - The Irish Rover - with a new landlord.
