Double funeral for slain Scots hoods Eddie Lyons Jr & Ross Monaghan to held TODAY

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The pair are being laid to rest by loved-ones just over one month after being gunned down in Spain
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MOURNERS are gathering today for the funeral of slain gangland kingpins Eddie Lyons Jnr and Ross Monaghan - amid simmering revenge fears linked to Scotland's raging turf wars.
Lyons, 46, and Monaghan, 43, are being laid to rest by loved-ones in a joint ceremony just over one month after they were gunned down in a Spanish boozer.
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Eddie Lyons Jnr, left, and Ross Monaghan were murdered by a gunman on May 31.
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Monaghans bar in Fuengirola, Spain where the two hoods were assassinated.
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CCTV captured the moment a gunman pursued Monaghan inside the death boozer.
The solemn occasion comes days after we revealed authorities in Spain had handed over the pair's bodies to relatives to be repatriated to Scotland.
Hundreds of friends, family and underworld figures are gathering at a crematorium in north Glasgow to show respect to Monaghan and Lyons Jnr - son of Godfather Eddie, 67, and brother of Dubai-based mob boss Steven Lyons, 44.
We told how Lyons and Monaghan met their end after watching the Champions League Final in Monaghans, Fuengirola, on Saturday,May 31.
In the wake of the killings, associates of the Irish Kinahan cartel leaders gave their support to the families and promised them: "We'll get this sorted."
Allies of fugitive kingpin Daniel Kinahan had also told grieving loved ones they intend to pay their respects at the funerals of the executed hoods.
We told how Monaghan was key in helping to cement the Glasgow-based Lyons' ties with the Kinahans, who have a £4million bounty on their heads in the US.
A relative told The Scottish Sun: "Ross was very, very close with the Irish guys. He had a very close relationship with them.
"The family have had a few phone calls from them to say, 'Sorry for your loss'.'
We told how alleged hitman Michael Riley is to fight extradition.
The 44-year-old, of Huyton, Liverpool, appeared last month at Westminster Magistrates Court as part of a bid to have him shipped to Spain.
Riley's full extradition hearing will be in October and is expected to last all day.
The Lyons gang kingpins were drinking in Monaghans bar when they were gunned down in front of staff and revellers.
A hooded assassin was captured on CCTV storming the boozer and shooting both men dead in a targeted double hit.
We told how cops in Spain and Scotland gave conflicting information over who is believed to have ordered the slayings.
Police Scotland first insisted they had 'no intelligence' to suggest the murders were connected to an ongoing turf war here.
However, their Spain counterparts later said the man they want extradited over the killings was 'an internal member of the rival Daniel gang'.
That prompted the Scottish force to repeat their insistence there is no Daniel link to the slayings - a position also held by members of Monaghan's family.
A relative of the murdered mob boss said last month: 'The one thing people need to know is the Daniels are not behind this.'
We told how a captured mobile phone holds the key to proving the alleged assassination is linked to their Daniel gang rivals, sources claim.
Cops are understood to have seized the mobile from the alleged hitman suspected of shooting dead the duo.
Insiders say it contains data allegedly linking Riley to Daniel hoods who Spanish detectives reckon are behind the massacre.
Career criminal Monaghan – who fled Scotland for Spain after a failed attempt on his life in 2017 – was tried but acquitted over the murder of notorious Glasgow hood Kevin 'Gerbil' Carroll at an Asda car park in 2010.
In August 2017 he and Lyons Jr, both members of the Lyons Glasgow crime family, were cleared of being involved in a brutal street attack on three men outside the Campsie bar in Bishopbriggs, near Glasgow.
The murders happened in the thick of a gang war in Scotland involving associates of caged kingpin Mark Richardson, 38, and his allies in the Daniel clan - the Lyons' arch enemies.
Dubai-based hood Ross 'Miami' McGill and a group known as Tamo Junto have been targeting Richardson's associates and Daniel family members.
Cops have arrested 50 people in Scotland under Operation Portaledge but McGill remains out of reach in the UAE.
Scotland's top cop has warned hoods based abroad who are linked to the chaos 'We are coming for you'.
Chief Constable Jo Farrell laid down the gauntlet to crime figures hiding in the glitzy desert bolthole.
She said: "We're working closely with the Crown Office and the National Crime Agency (NCA) to see if we can get those people back from those countries.
"These aren't fast processes, but we're working with the authorities there and the NCA have individuals in those countries.
"That's our link in and we're working very closely with them.'