A car was rammed into a house linked to the Lyons crime family and torched in a gangland revenge attack. Police are probing the attack on the property in the Barlanark area of Glasgow in the early hours of Thursday morning. Emergency crews were called to the scene after flames spread from the vehicle to the front door of the end terrace house.
It is understood the house targeted is linked to the relative of a Lyons gang foot soldier who cannot be named for legal reasons. The same property was targeted in February when a vehicle was rammed into the side of the building.
A source told the Record the incident was revenge for a firebomb attack on a business linked to mob boss Mark Richardson's pal in Edinburgh this week. They said: "This is clearly revenge for the attack in Edinburgh on Tuesday. The Daniel and Richardson mobs are hitting back this year and this is the second time this house has been targeted. They weren't just going to sit back forever and accept this happening. The guys they are after are high ranking members of the TMJ mob and have been affiliated to the Lyons family for longer."
Pictures taken last night show a white Nissan Juke ablaze outside the home. More images show the mangled burnt out white vehicle used to ram the property, with debris from inside the house strewn across the garden. The car appears to have been ploughed into the double-window of the living room with the panel and glass completely gone. Scorch marks can be seen on the brickwork above the window this morning. Police have taped off the property and sealed off the entrance to the street.
A neighbour told the Record two men had parked up on a nearby street an hour before the attack. They said: "A vehicle parked up in the street behind here about an hour before the car was driven into the house. Two guys got out and were mulling about the area for ages but they weren't exactly being discreet, I even heard one say to the other 'have you got the petrol.' Then all of a sudden we heard an almighty bang from the car being driven into the property. They threw a petrol bomb inside the vehicle and ran away into a lane and got back into the car they had arrived here in."
Earlier this week Kingpin Ross McGill's Tamo Junto (TMJ) thugs launched a firebomb attack on Edinburgh business linked to mob boss Mark Richardson's pal. The Garage Conversion Company on The Wisp was torched in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The unit is owned by Derek Welsh, whose wife Mercedes McMillan is a relative of Mark Richardson's close pal David McMillan Snr. Welsh is listed on Companies House as holding directorship in 10 firms across Edinburgh and East Lothian. McMillan Snr, 55, has previously been targeted at his plush home in Pitcairn Grove in the capital a number of times in incidents linked to Scotland's gang war.
McGill, 32, launched a gang war in Scotland last year after blaming Richardson's crew for paying for a £500,000 consignment of cocaine using fake bank notes. His pal David McMillan was targeted at his home at Pitcairn Grove on April 17 last year when two masked thugs torched his front door while children were sleeping inside. He was targeted again weeks later when his Land Rover was firebombed on his driveway on May 7. McMillan was left with serious injuries when a gang of three men wearing balaclavas turned up outside his home and attacked him with machetes on May 22.
McGill's TMJ crew also targeted the Daniel crime clan in Glasgow due to their association with Richardson. High-ranking members of the family, including Steven 'Bonzo' Daniel, 46, and Norman 'Snudge' Daniel, 73, had their home torched. The Lyons mob helped McGill by supplying him with information on targets within the Daniel family. Last month a skip lorry was ploughed into the Edinburgh home of a gangster blamed for sparking Scotland's drug war.
