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Daily Record
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- Daily Record
Gangland thugs plough SUV through living room window of Lanarkshire home
The frightening incident is believed to be connected to the ongoing gangland turf war. 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.
The Guardian
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
My Dad just died … again! A close inspection of TV's most shocking plot-holes
Now in its third season, it's safe to say that HBO's Sex and the City revival And Just Like That has struggled to capture the zeitgeist in the same way as its mother series. But that all changes now because, in its most recent episode, shrugged off its tired old premise to become something new. Now it is nothing less than a show about the miracle of human reanimation. The most recent episode was entitled Silent Mode. In it, Nicole Ari Parker's character Lisa learned that her 90-year-old father had died. As she prepared to deliver a moving eulogy, sharp-eyed And Just Like That loyalists were all grabbed by the same sudden thought: wait, hadn't he already died once before? They remembered the premiere of the series, when the characters were still reeling from the sudden Peloton-adjacent death of Mr Big, and Lisa told Charlotte: 'I was exactly the same when my father died last year.' Now, some have claimed that this is lazy writing; all the major aspects of a character's life – like how many parents they have, and the general impossibility of corporeal resurrection – should be kept in a show bible that is referenced ahead of any major plot points. However, I think it is more likely that all the characters from And Just Like That are simply members of a satanic voodoo death cult driven by the secret desire to Frankenstein all their loved ones back to life in order to kill them again, so they can revel in the hideous truth that they have become more powerful than God. Alternatively, the first dead dad was her stepdad. That's the line the And Just Like That writers have hastily thrown together in the wake of the mistake, at least. Lisa had a stepdad, and he died, then her actual dad died a couple of years later. Would it have been easier to understand if Lisa – a character whom we had known for seconds at that point – had said 'stepdad' instead of 'dad' in the premiere? Possibly. But it's too late to go back and fix that now. At the very least, And Just Like That can reassure itself that it's not the only show to have messed up like this. When you're making a long-running series with a large cast, it's only natural to expect that some details will get mixed up along the way. One notorious example is Friends. In the very first episode, Monica introduces Rachel – at that point a runaway bride – to all her chums. One of them is Chandler, whom she appears to be meeting for the first time. But as the series wore on and started to introduce flashbacks, we saw that Rachel had met Chandler several times previously; once shortly after getting engaged to Barry and twice more at family Thanksgiving meals. And these were only the times we saw. Perhaps Rachel had met Chandler hundreds of times before the start of the first episode. Maybe even thousands. Maybe, with this in mind, Friends actually becomes a heartbreaking tale of a woman struggling with the debilitating effects of transient global amnesia. Something similar happened in Frasier. When Frasier Crane was simply a side character on Cheers, he once mentioned that his father had been a scientist, but was now dead. But then came the Frasier spin-off, in which one of the main characters was none other than Frasier's dad, depicted not as a corpse in a lab coat but a gnarled retired policeman. However, Frasier was the rare show that not only noticed the goof but actively leaned into it. Martin Crane was always a police officer, it was explained, but Frasier had lied about him out of embarrassment. If people had known that his dad was a street cop and not a highfalutin academic, then Frasier's painstakingly assembled self-image would have crumbled into a pile of ashes. A continuity error transformed into an opportunity to deepen a character. How very Frasier. Perhaps this is something that And Just Like That can also use. Forget the wishy-washy stepfather line: let's make Lisa an inveterate liar, who repeatedly invents bereavements in order to gain the trust of those around her. Wouldn't that be a far more interesting direction in which to take the character? Either that or the death cult thing, which would at least liven up the show a bit.
The Guardian
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
My Dad just died … again! A close inspection of TV's most shocking plot-holes
Now in its third season, it's safe to say that HBO's Sex and the City revival And Just Like That has struggled to capture the zeitgeist in the same way as its mother series. But that all changes now because, in its most recent episode, shrugged off its tired old premise to become something new. Now it is nothing less than a show about the miracle of human reanimation. The most recent episode was entitled Silent Mode. In it, Nicole Ari Parker's character Lisa learned that her 90-year-old father had died. As she prepared to deliver a moving eulogy, sharp-eyed And Just Like That loyalists were all grabbed by the same sudden thought: wait, hadn't he already died once before? They remembered the premiere of the series, when the characters were still reeling from the sudden Peloton-adjacent death of Mr Big, and Lisa told Charlotte: 'I was exactly the same when my father died last year.' Now, some have claimed that this is lazy writing; all the major aspects of a character's life – like how many parents they have, and the general impossibility of corporeal resurrection – should be kept in a show bible that is referenced ahead of any major plot points. However, I think it is more likely that all the characters from And Just Like That are simply members of a satanic voodoo death cult driven by the secret desire to Frankenstein all their loved ones back to life in order to kill them again, so they can revel in the hideous truth that they have become more powerful than God. Alternatively, the first dead dad was her stepdad. That's the line the And Just Like That writers have hastily thrown together in the wake of the mistake, at least. Lisa had a stepdad, and he died, then her actual dad died a couple of years later. Would it have been easier to understand if Lisa – a character who we had known for seconds at that point – had said 'stepdad' instead of 'dad' in the premiere? Possibly. But it's too late to go back and fix that now. At the very least, And Just Like That can reassure itself that it's not the only show to have messed up like this. When you're making a long-running series with a large cast, it's only natural to expect that some details will get mixed up along the way. One notorious example is Friends. In the very first episode, Monica introduces Rachel – at that point a runaway bride – to all her chums. One of them is Chandler, who she appears to be meeting for the first time. But as the series wore on and started to introduce flashbacks, we saw that Rachel had met Chandler several times previously; once shortly after getting engaged to Barry and twice more at family Thanksgiving meals. And these were only the times we saw. Perhaps Rachel had met Chandler hundreds of times before the start of the first episode. Maybe even thousands. Maybe, with this in mind, Friends actually becomes a heartbreaking tale of a woman struggling with the debilitating effects of transient global amnesia. Something similar happened in Frasier. When Frasier Crane was simply a side character on Cheers, he once mentioned that his father had been a scientist, but was now dead. But then came the Frasier spin-off, in which one of the main characters was none other than Frasier's dad, depicted not as a corpse in a lab coat but a gnarled retired policeman. However, Frasier was the rare show that not only noticed the goof but actively leaned into it. Martin Crane was always a police officer, it was explained, but Frasier had lied about him out of embarrassment. If people had known that his dad was a street cop and not a highfalutin academic, then Frasier's painstakingly assembled self-image would have crumbled into a pile of ashes. A continuity error transformed into an opportunity to deepen a character. How very Frasier. Perhaps this is something that And Just Like That can also use. Forget the wishy-washy stepfather line: let's make Lisa an inveterate liar, who repeatedly invents bereavements in order to gain the trust of those around her. Wouldn't that be a far more interesting direction in which to take the character? Either that or the death cult thing, which would at least liven up the show a bit.
Yahoo
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
And Just Like That Viewers Left Puzzled By Continuity Error In Latest Episode
Warning: This article contains spoilers for this week's edition of And Just Like That. Things took an emotional turn in the latest instalment of And Just Like That, when Nicole Ari Parker's character Lisa Todd Wexley was left grieving after the death of her father. Much of the episode centred around Lisa's feelings of guilt over not being there at the end of her father's life, and the rest of the characters later joined her at the funeral. However, this latest development in the And Just Like That storyline has left some viewers scratching their heads… namely because Lisa had already said her father was dead shortly after the character was first introduced. In episode two of the Sex And The City revival, Charlotte confided in Lisa that she was struggling after the death of Carrie's husband, Mr Big. LTW responded: 'I was the exact same way when I lost my dad last year. I could see my rings literally shaking on my hands while I was trying to be so strong…' the writers forgetting they had already killed off LTW's dad in season one # — Shane 🍊 (@shaaneoliver) July 5, 2025 Did the writers of #AndJustLikeThat forget Lisa's dad was already dead?? She told Charlotte that in season 1. lmaooo. This show is so bad — yasmin (@yasmin86) July 5, 2025 Wait... Lisa's father was already dead (from a previous episode)??? #AndJustLikeThat#AJLT — Brett (@Rynehelm) July 5, 2025 Wasn't Lisa's father already dead in a previous season? Now he has been resurrected and killed off again?? And what was with Herbert's terrible delivery of the news??#ajlt#AndJustLikeThat#andjustlikethatseason3 — The Watcher (@TellyTubbo) July 4, 2025 Wait just realised Lisa already confirmed in S1 that her Father was already dead😭 these writers… — RealHousewivesRanked! (@RankedReal) July 4, 2025 So the writers of #AndJustLikeThat hate writing the show as much as viewers hate watching it because how do they write an episode about Lisa's dad dying yet mentioned him being dead already the season before? #AJLThttps:// — Branden Lee (@Brandeness) July 4, 2025 LTW's dad dying twice — Teresa's 5th Dorter (@The_CinemaFreak) July 6, 2025 Didn't LTW's father die already? In Season 1?? # — Simy (@Simy_78) July 4, 2025 Exacerbating matters even further is the fact that in between Lisa's dad's first and second deaths, viewers even got the chance to meet him, with Star Wars favourite Billy Dee Williams playing him in an episode where LTW and her husband Herbert host a dinner party in honour of their wedding anniversary… sooooooo, lisa's dad was already d3@d on szn 1 ep 2i guess he reincarnated for a dinner party lisa hosted in szn 2now we're on szn 3 ep 6 and it's lisa's dad's funeralcancel "and just like that" plsput us outta our misery — Atlanta Cowboy Carter July 14 🐝 (@naeeve_) July 4, 2025 Lisa Todd's father told Charlotte in S1 she lost her dad "last year". He came to dinner in S2 👻 (Billy Dee Williams). Then he died, again, in S3? Did ChatGPT write these episodes? 😬 # — ʙᴇʟʟᴀᴅᴏɴɴᴀ (@canyou_sonicme) July 6, 2025 #andjustlikethatseason3 is scraping so hard for storylines that they've had to re-kill LTW's dad! (he was dead in S1, but they resurrected him for S2). — Steacy Curry 💎 (@SteacyC) July 4, 2025 This isn't the first time that the Sex And The City revival has lost track of characters who are and are not dead, though. Early on in the reboot, Harry referred to his mother having been 'dead for 10 years' – although when he first met Charlotte in Sex And The City, almost 20 years earlier, he told his future wife that his mum was already dead, and that he'd vowed to her on her deathbed that he would marry a Jewish woman (leading to Charlotte converting to Judaism). 'We've Got A Nice Groove': The And Just Like That Cast Look Ahead At What's To Come In Season 3 'It's Interesting How We Judge Women': Sarah Jessica Parker Fires Back At Carrie Bradshaw Haters Kristin Davis Admits 1 Thing She's 'So Scared' Of Before Every Season Of And Just Like That
Daily Mail
04-07-2025
- Daily Mail
Chilling threat to mourners attending funerals of two Scottish gangsters who were shot dead in Costa del Sol bar as ceremony takes place today
Mourners attending the funerals of two Scottish gangsters who were gunned down in the Costa del Sol have been warned they risk becoming the target of similar violence. 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 this week - as thugs issued a chilling threat ahead of their funerals, warning attendees they would be considered allies of the pair and a Dubai-based 'Mr Big'. 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.' At least one of the funerals is taking place in Glasgow today - 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. '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. 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.
