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Ex-Rangers ultras boss using Lyons-linked Spain hoods to wage gang war across Scotland

Ex-Rangers ultras boss using Lyons-linked Spain hoods to wage gang war across Scotland

Scottish Sun21-05-2025
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DUBAI-based Mr Big Ross McGill uses Spanish connections to keep his hands clean of violence he orders in Scotland, we can reveal.
Mobsters in Marbella are said by sources to have played a key role in identifying targets and recruiting foot soldiers to carry out McGill's orders.
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Ross McGill has been ordering attacks across Scotland from Dubai
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McGill has been coordinating the violence via underworld contact in Spain
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Firebombings and physical attacks have been carried out across the central belt in recent weeks
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It's claimed the Costa Del Sol hoods linked to the notorious Lyons gang have been heavily involved in plotting against members of bitter enemies from the Daniel crime family.
Leading figures based in the sunshine bolthole include Steven Lyons, 44, and Ross Monaghan, 43, along with other convicted mobsters operating from Spain.
An insider said: 'McGill has no direct contact with the underlings in Scotland who are being paid to carry out these attacks.
'Everything goes through big players in Spain who have been providing addresses and recruiting foot soldiers to carry out the dirty work.
'McGill's rise through the ranks has been meteoric thanks to the criminal connections he made, partly through his role with the Union Bears.
'But he still relies on a network of established gangsters who have an army of mostly young men willing to do their bidding.'
We told how the ex-Rangers ultra - dubbed Miami - is waging a terrifying gangland war on Scotland's streets after rising to the top table of the nation's organised crime network.
The former Union Bears chief, 31, was pictured at Ibrox in 2021 with then Gers boss Steven Gerrard, 44, and two years earlier with captain James Tavernier, 33.
But he left his role with the ultras group just months before he was due to appear in court in early 2022 in connection with a probe into drug dealing and gangsterism.
He initially fled to Spain before resurfacing in Dubai from where he's been calling the shots on a vengeful campaign of violence sparked by a dodgy cocaine deal.
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His self-styled group Tamu Junto has claimed responsibility for a wave of firebombings across the central belt since April, targeting associates of caged crime kingpin Mark Richardson, 38, and the Glasgow-based Daniel mob.
A source said: 'McGill is Scotland's most wanted gangster.'
We told of claims McGill was introduced to the highest levels of criminal networks by supergang chief James 'The Don' White, 47.
He is also a close pal of drug dealer and ex-Union Bears thug Lloyd Cross, 33, now serving a six-year prison stretch for his role in Jamie 'Iceman' Stevenson's £100million racket smuggling cocaine in banana boxes.
McGill, from East Kilbride, was recently snapped in a white Rolls-Royce in the desert haven favoured by criminals eager to evade the law.
It's a far cry from his previous role as a top figure in the fanatical Gers supporters group.
We told how the violence was sparked amid claims associates of caged Edinburgh kingpin Richardson ripped him off with fake banknotes over a £500,000 coke deal.
Cops have made more than 30 arrests in connection with the feud.
The latest attack was a firebombing at the home in Drumchapel, Glasgow, of Kelly 'Bo' Green, 45, previously the partner of murdered Daniel enforcer Kevin 'Gerbil' Carroll, 29.
There have been claims of truce talks in Dubai, where Daniel clan associates have made efforts to persuade McGill to call off the mayhem - but been rebuffed.
Underworld sources last week alleged McGill fled from a nightclub in the UAE bolthole after spotting heavies linked to Steven 'Bonzo' Daniel, 45, nearby.
We told in February of claims Spain-based Lyons, 44, has been putting his hoods through lie detector tests after racking up debt to the feared Kinahan cartel.
Sources revealed the gang kingpin has been 'on edge' over a series of thefts and police seizures that put him under pressure from the notorious Irish mob.
The revelations emerged after a Lyons stash house was robbed of £600,000 from drugs in November.
A source said: 'Lyons is on edge these days because he is in debt to the Kinahans.'
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