This is linked to, but I think separate from, the attack on the PH office in Edinburgh
But there's so many names and stuff unrelated to the trade in all of this that I've kind of lost track.
But three of the protaganists named here are teenagers
Wannabee impressionable hardmen that the linchpins get to do their dirty work at the coalface
In twenty years they'll probably being doing something completely different and look back at all this with huge regret...
...or they'll be in and out of jail for the rest of their lives. Or involved in criminality but getting away with it, as many at the top of all this seem to do
Men who firebombed taxi office and cars during gang war jailed for 25 yearshttps://news.stv.tv/east-central/men-wh ... r-25-yearsThe gang conspired to damage property and cars associated with gangland boss Mark RichardsonThree men who played roles in a “gangland war” against a gangland boss have been jailed for a total of 25 years.
Kieran Abercrombie, 32, and Robert Thomson, 18, conspired with others to “identify and damage properties and motor vehicles associated with Mark Richardson” in May 2025.
This included setting a Land Rover on fire outside the home of David McMillan – an associate of Richardson, a convicted drug dealer.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard how the duo carried out the conspiracy to sabotage Richardson’s possessions by using messaging apps WhatsApp and Signal.
Earlier in the same month, Abercrombie, Thomson and a third man, Kenzie Gardner, 19, set fire to a building housing Glasgow taxi firm Deuce Private Hire.
On the same day, the trio joined forces with a fourth man called Tyler Ramage, also 19, to set fire to a Land Rover and an Audi, which was parked outside a house in Edinburgh’s Morningside suburb.
The conspiracy happened during a conflict involving the Daniel, the Lyons and the Richardson crime gangs who operate in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
However, their role in the war was foiled after Police Scotland launched Operation Portaledge – a law enforcement initiative designed to bring gangsters to justice.
https://news.stv.tv/wp-content/uploads/ ... 50909.jpegOn Tuesday, the four men, who pled guilty to offences last month, appeared for sentencing before Judge Lord Mulholland.
Abercrombie was given a nine-year sentence, and Thomson received six years and eight months detention.
Gardener was sentenced to five years and four months of detention, and Ramage was handed four years of detention.
‘Gangsterism is never acceptable in a civilised society’Passing sentence, Lord Mulholland said: “You all pled guilty to varying degrees of firebombing a business, firebombing two cars in the driveway of a private dwelling, plotting to firebomb another private dwelling and possession of a stun gun.
“The background to all of this is that it was part of a gangland war, as the serious organised crime aggravation attests to.
“If that was not serious enough, the taxi premises in charge one was in operation and two employees were working there at the time.
“You could quite easily have been facing a murder charge had the fire taken a different course. We can see the dangers of fires from recent events in Glasgow.
“For charge two, the firebombing of two cars, this was carried out in the driveway of a house occupied by a family. Children were in the house at the time. You were masked, and this was carried out in broad daylight. The plan was to cause the fire to spread.
“For charge three, the plan was to firebomb more cars at a different address in Edinburgh, another private dwelling. The plan was being developed and arrangements made for transport to carry out the offences, discussing which vehicle to use and which route to take.
“Fortunately, you were stopped before the plan came to fruition.
“Not only was all this in furtherance of a gangland war, you were receiving payment for your nefarious work. Gangsterism is never acceptable in a civilised society.
“The public won’t accept it, law enforcement won’t accept it, and the courts won’t accept it.
“There is a heavy price to pay for those caught doing this criminality, and you are about to pay that price.”
Criminal feud crackdownPolice Scotland’s Operation Portaledge was launched to crack down on serious organised crime after a gang feud spanning the central belt ignited in March 2025.
Homes have been shot at, businesses torched, properties invaded, and machete attacks have taken place over the last year amid escalating violence between the feuding organisations.
In September four Scots, Steven Lyons, Ross McGill, Stephen Jamieson and Steven Larwood, were allegedly taken into custody by Dubai police as part of the large-scale investigation.
Mark RichardsonJamieson was extradited to Scotland where he faces a total of six charges, including directing someone to commit a serious offence.
Jailed cocaine kingpin Mark Richardson has also been linked to the was, with a group named TMJ issuing a bounty, offering a reward for a violent attack on the Scottish drug lord.
Following a lull in activity, the feud is believed to have reignited this month after two incidents where cars were rammed into Glasgow homes and fled the scene.
Officers are keeping an “open mind” into whether the incidents are linked to the underworld war.
The special task force has arrested a total of 63 people in connection with the organised crime war.
Key figures ‘shot and killed’ amid rising tensionAs criminal tensions rose in Scotland, two key figures were gunned down at an Irish pub in Spain.
Eddie Lyons Junior and Ross Monaghan were gunned down at Monaghans Irish Bar in Fuengirola, south of Malaga, by a masked assailant who fled shortly after on May 31, 2025.
The pair are understood to have been high ranking names in the Glasgow-based Lyons gang, which has been locked in a bitter feud with the Daniels organised crime group for over two decades.
https://news.stv.tv/wp-content/uploads/ ... 50870.jpegEddie Lyons Junior and Ross MonaghanThe fatal attack occurred after a car pulled up outside and a masked man got out and opened fire on the men.
Michael Riley was arrested in Liverpool under an international warrant issued by the Spanish authorities.
The 44-year-old has consented to his extradition to Spain, and no more hearings are due to take place in the UK.
Spanish police claim that Riley initially fled to Portugal before flying to the UK and that the alleged gunman shaved off his beard to change his appearance.
Spanish police believe he then hid at several addresses in Britain before his arrest, which they say came as he was about to escape to an island tax haven.
They added that the charges are two murders, membership of a criminal organisation and illegal possession of weapons.
Police Scotland previously said the targeted attack did not appear to be linked with a series of criminal acts by rival groups in Scotland, and that any speculation was “not helpful” to their investigation.
But at a press conference in Spain, police chief Pedro Agudo Novo said a Daniels clan member was involved in the assassinations.
He described Riley as “an internal member” of the Glasgow-based crime family
It is understood that Scottish detectives did not believe Riley had links to the criminal gang.
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