Gangland thugs plough SUV through living room window of Lanarkshire home
A terrifying video has emerged showing a masked gang ploughing an SUV through the living room window of a home in Lanarkshire.
The frightening incident took place at the semi-detached earlier this month. It is believed to be connected to an ongoing gangland war.
In the footage, a hooded thug dressed in black can be seen arriving at the home and smashing the windows and front door with a pickaxe.
A second masked man appears and uses an axe to smash up a black Audi parked in the driveway. The two armed men can be heard laughing before they dump the axes.
One man then climbs into a waiting black BMW. The car is reversed at speed into the living room window of the home, ripping the window from the frame.
The clip ends as the camera pans around to show off the carnage.
The video appears to be captioned with a warning to associates of the Lyons crime clan and Dubai 'Mr Big' Ross McGill.
The message reads: "We don't set houses on fire with kids inside.
"This is the first warning."
It comes just two weeks after mourners who attended the funeral for murdered hoods Eddie Lyons Jnr and Ross Monaghan were warned they would be targeted.
The gangsters were drinking in Monaghan's bar in the Costa del Sol after watching the Champions League Cup final when they were gunned down on May 31.
They were laid to rest in a joint funeral at Bishopbriggs Crematorium on July 4.
The sinister message appeared in an online post and blamed ex-Rangers capo McGill for the relentless gangland feud which has engulfed central Scotland since March.
The organised crime war was sparked after an associate of caged Edinburgh drugs kingpin Mark Richardson ripped him off in a £500,000 coke deal. It's seen pals of Richardson and the Daniels crime clan targeted by firebombings and violent attacks - assisted by Lyons associates.
Police Scotland have arrested 52 people in connection with the gang wars as part of the Operation Portaledge investigation into violent incidents in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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