EXCLUSIVE: For decades, two gangs have dominated the Scottish mafia scene: the Daniel family (top right) in Glasgow and the Richardsons (bottom right) in Edinburgh. The gangs are allies, and although they have had their rivals - notably the Lyons of Glasgow - they have kept their turf and remained powerful players in the criminal underworld for years. But now they are both at risk of being annihilated. A top-level Irish gangster based in Dubai nicknamed Mr Big has blamed the two gangs for stealing a £500K shipment of cocaine and has put '£100K' bounties on kingpins Steven 'Bonzo' Daniel and Mark Richardson. Using a mysterious gang of violent mercenaries called Tamo Junto (Portuguese for 'We are together'), Mr Big has started a violent gang war using shootings and firebombs in his effort to make the Daniel and Richardson clans go 'extinct'. But while their deaths might clear the path for Mr Big to sell cocaine largely uninterrupted into the country, the eradication of those two gangs could also ignite a more widespread turf war as young gangsters vie to become Scotland's next godfather. Furthermore, MailOnline can reveal exactly who these young mobsters are and where their gangs operate using detailed gangland maps (left) of both major Scottish cities....read
What will happen if some of UK's most feared crime families are wiped out? MailOnline map reveals the young gangsters waiting for their chance to pounce on the old guard... and become the next godfather
03/05/25 08:49
