Edinburgh mob boss Mark Richardson's associates 'plotted Spanish hit' at secret gang summit
Ben Borland & Lee Dalgetty
Mon 2 June 2025 at 10:26 pm CEST·5-min read

Ross Monaghan and Eddie Lyons Jnr were both gunned down at the bar in Spain
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The murders of Ross Monaghan and Eddie Lyons Jnr were 'plotted during a secret summit', according to new reports.

The shooting happened in Costa Del Sol in Spain, after a masked gunman leapt out of a car outside an Irish pub on the beachfront in Fuengirola. Monaghan, 43, and Lyons, 46, were two of the leading members of the Lyons gang, reports the Scottish Daily Express.

The planning is said to have taken plane in Kirkintilloch, nine miles north-east of Glasgow, where Daniel clan members 'gathered for a council of war'.

The Scottish Sun reports that top-ranking members of the Daniel clan are said to have gathered at a "secret location" in Kirkintilloch with high-ranking associates of jailed Edinburgh drugs baron Mark Richardson. In recent months, members of this east coast-west coast criminal alliance have suffered in silence in the face of a relentless onslaught from their hated rivals, the Lyons, along with a relatively new face on the scene - Ross 'Miami' McGill.

Firebombings on cars, homes and businesses, drive-by shootings that left bullet holes in doors and windows, a violent home invasion in Glasgow that left a young boy and an older woman - both related to the Daniel family - bloodied and battered, and a number of machete attacks. In one, an Edinburgh businessman who just happens to be an old friend of Richardson's, was hospitalised; in another, workers at a Daniel-linked garage East Kilbride were injured by blade-wielding thugs.

But nobody had been killed. And the word was starting to go out that the Daniels were defenceless in the onslaught of this violence. Not only that, they were being mocked by McGill and his crew, known as Tamo Junto (a Portugeuse phrase meaning 'we are together'), thanks to a blizzard of TikTok videos.

The former Rangers football ultra now lives in Dubai, alongside Steven Lyons, 44 - acknowledged as the head of the gang - and members of the Irish Kinahan cartel. And it is the backing of the Kinahans which is seen as crucial to the recent rise of the Lyons.