An underworld source revealed the pair had a long conversation on the phone to discuss the way forward.
Mob bosses Ross McGill and Steven Lyons have held a gangland summit to plot violent revenge attacks on their enemies in the Daniel and Richardson crews.
The gangsters spoke early in the new year to plan a fresh wave of violence against Edinburgh kingpin Mark Richardson’s crew and the Daniel clan in Glasgow.
McGill, 31, and Lyons, 44, have been orchestrating a bloody gang war that has swept Scotland since last year from their homes in Dubai – but both were booted out of the United Arab Emirates after they were arrested there in September and are currently living in secret boltholes.
The head of the Lyons family blames the Daniel crime family for the assassinations of his brother Eddie, 46, and key lieutenant Ross Monaghan, 43, outside a bar in Spain last June and has vowed revenge.
McGill is locked in a bitter feud with Richardson that broke out in early 2025 over a batch of stolen cocaine.
The two heavyweight hoods shared a lengthy phone call earlier this week as they planned to take back control on Scotland’s mean streets across both major cities.
A source has told the Record: “McGill and Lyons got together for crunch talks. The Lyons mob will be active in Glasgow and will be going after the Daniel mob. McGill’s Tamo Junto gang will be focusing on Mark Richardson’s crew in Edinburgh.
“Steven has obviously sworn revenge for what happened to his brother Eddie and blames the Daniel clan.
“The Lyons enforcers had almost destroyed the Daniel family as a force in places like Milton and Possil about a decade ago and Ross Monaghan was controlling all their drug operations on the streets in Glasgow, so with him gone it has created a bit of a power vacuum.
“Steven is determined to get back on top of it.
“McGill started his whole gang feud with the intention of wiping out Richardson’s cronies and his arrested got in the way of that, so he wants to get back on course this year.
“Richardson’s top boys are vulnerable at the moment with so many of their associates getting jailed over the past year. McGill wants to eliminate what is left of them.”
McGill launched warfare on the streets of Edinburgh and Glasgow last year after accusing men linked to kingpin Mark Richardson, 38, of ripping him off by paying for a £500k consignment of cocaine with fake bank notes.
He also targeted the Daniel crime family over their association with Richardson and reached out to Steven Lyons for assistance.
Lyons, who has been at war with the Daniel clan for over 25 years, is said to have been providing McGill and his Tamo Junto (TMJ) gang with information on their mutual rivals.
Violence swept across the country as McGill’s TMJ footsoldiers torched businesses and homes connected to their enemies and chopped them with machetes.
The war first erupted on March 6 when the Belle Cheveau salon in Edinburgh, owned by Richardson’s girlfriend, was destroyed in a disturbing firebomb attack.
Properties linked to the mobster and his associates continued to be targeted but the violence in the capital city exploded in attacks at the home of Richardson’s close pal David McMillan, 54.
TMJ thugs launched two petrol bombs at the property on Pitcairn Grove twice in April, before masked individuals turned up outside the house armed with machetes on May 22.
McMillan was hit on the head and body with the blades and suffered horrendous injuries, including a fractured skull, and was rushed to the hospital in a serious condition.
The feud has also been taking place across Glasgow since April, when Daniel associate Craig ‘Rob Roy’ Gallagher’s carpet and flooring factory in Bishopbriggs was torched.
That same month, Steven ‘Bonzo’ Daniel’s home in the area was torched and just weeks later, his sister Kelly ‘Bo’ Green’s home was set on fire.
McGill’s gang were desperate to wipe out the family and a 12-year-old boy and 72-year-old woman were injured when balaclava thugs kicked in the door of a property looking for a senior member of the Daniel clan.
A garage owned by Robert Daniel, 50, in East Kilbride was attacked in May when masked thugs burst into the property and knived two men, aged 41 and 45, leaving them with serious injuries.
Days later Eddie Lyons and Ross Monaghan were brutally executed when they were gunned down outside Monaghan’s Bar in Fuengirola, Spain, on May 30.
Hitman Michael Riley, 45, was arrested in Liverpool in June accused of the double murder of Lyons, 46, and Monaghan, 43, after they were shot dead at a pub in Fuengirola on May 31. He is now in a Spanish jail awaiting trial.
Spanish police blamed the Daniel family for organising the murders but Scots cops insist they have no reason to believe the deaths are linked to Scotland.
Police Scotland’s Operation Portaledge probe into the gang war has led to 63 people being arrested and a number of them have been sent to prison.
Liam McDermid, 25, was caged for six years and nine months in November after using a metal detector to search for a Glock pistol which had been hidden near a primary school in the capital.
Arran Reid, 27, was jailed for eight years and four months in December for the machete attack on David McMillan.
