The Daily Record has taken a deep dive into the evil Daniel crime clan’s most vile acts from kids being locked in animal cages to trashing graves.
This comes after we reported yesterday that foster carer Barbara Daniel was released from prison six months after she was convicted of abusing children at a Glasgow “house of horrors”.
However, this was just the latest in a long line of horrific acts perpetrated by the Daniel gang.
From terrifying alien abductions and the desecration of a young boy’s grave who died of cancer to the brutal Applerow Motors Shooting and a Costa del Sol double execution.
Here are the most despicable acts carried out by the Daniels.
House of Horrors
Barbara Daniel, 75, and her husband Douglas, 80, were found guilty in January after subjecting six children, aged between four and 14, to cruel and unnatural treatment at their home in Parkhead between 1986 and 1991.
The trial heard how the pair dished out horrific punishment methods, which included forcing some of the youngsters into an animal pen.
They both received a 30-month sentence on March 9. However, Barbara has been freed from jail after successfully appealing her sentence at the Sheriff Appeal Court in Edinburgh on Tuesday – with it having been reduced with eligibility for release at 81 days.
he trial heard of the couple’s depravity as they were accused of a catalogue of horrific abuse.
One victim was made to stand with geese who pecked her skin, while a girl was ordered to bathe in a bird bath. Some kids went hungry under their roof, but one recalled being fed cow tongue intended for pet ferrets by “evil” Barbara Daniel.
At least one child was made to sit on the floor alongside pet dogs during mealtimes.
The children were also subjected to violent physical assaults and controlling behaviour. They were locked in rooms, monitored with alarmed windows and had their access to the bathroom restricted, including only being allowed one square of toilet paper.
One survivor told the Record about being confined in a makeshift cell inside a bird pen.
She said: “They would put me in there all day and wouldn’t feed me.”
She previously told how she confronted the couple as they left court after their sentencing and hoped they would “rot and die in jail”, adding: “They’re monsters.”
Costa Del Sol double murder
Notorious Lyons hood Eddie Lyons Jnr, 46, and his trusted lieutenant Ross Monaghan, 43, were shot dead at a pub in Fuengirola – then known as Monaghan’s – on May 31 last year while a turf war was escalating back home in Scotland.
The incident occurred just hours after the Champions League final when PSG thrashed Inter. Expats and holidaymakers were gathered around big screens at 11.30pm on the Saturday night when Lyons, who had been on a golfing holiday with pals, was shot outside on the terrace.
Harrowing images from the scene showed Lyons Jr lying lifeless on his back in shorts and a T-shirt by a drinks and meal blackboard.
A masked gunman dressed in black then stormed the pub and shot Monaghan at point black range. CCTV of the shooting was broadcast on Spanish TV.
It showed Monaghan dropping to the floor as the gunman shot at him a number of times. As the stricken gangster crawled across the floor, he appeared to turn around and look into his killer’s eyes before later being seen sitting upright against a wall covered in blood.
Spanish police identified the assassin as an internal member of the rival Daniel crime group before Michael Riley, 45, was arrested following an international manhunt and extradited to Spain.
Alien abductions
Kevin ‘The Gerbil’ Carroll was a feared enforcer for the Daniel gang. He struck up close friendships with crime boss Jamie Daniel’s sons Robert Daniel and Francis “Fraggle” Green as a young man who was bullied by their rivals Steven Lyons and his brother Eddie Jnr.
The father-of-three’s partner was Kelly Bo Green – the daughter of mob boss Jamie Daniel and the sister of Fraggle. It’s believed that Gerbil was behind a series of “alien abductions” across central Scotland in 2009.
It got the name because victims were so traumatised they told police they couldn’t remember anything about their ordeal. During the kidnappings, Carroll used blowtorches, power tools and boiling water to torture victims before stealing drugs, money and weapons from them.
Applerow Motors Shooting
On the afternoon of December 6, a blue Mazda pulled up outside Applerow Motors, a garage and MOT centre owned by David Lyons off the busy Balmore Road in Lambhill, North Glasgow. Two hitmen hired by the Daniel clan, Raymond Anderson and James McDonald, stepped out of the vehicle.
In a chilling, premeditated move, they wore “old man” rubber face masks and long trench coats to disguise their identities. Armed with handguns, they walked calmly into the garage and opened fire on the men inside.
The garage owner’s nephew, Michael Lyons, was fatally shot in the head at the age of 21. His cousin, Steven Lyons, was a primary target and was shot in the leg while attempting to flee.
Robert Pickett was shot three times, leaving him in a coma and resulting in the loss of a kidney. While, David Lyons narrowly escaped unharmed.
Anderson and McDonald denied the charges but were convicted by a majority verdict in 2008. They were handed a sentence of a minimum of 35 years in prison, which was later reduced to 30 years on appeal.
Grave desecration
Garry Lyons was the son of Lyons clan boss Eddie Snr and the brother of Steven and Eddie Jnr. In 1991, he passed away from leukaemia at age eight.
Then in November 2006, after surviving an attempt on his life three years earlier, Kevin ‘Gerbil’ Carroll allegedly toppled the gravestone of Garry.
It’s believed he wrapped a tow rope and chain around the headstone and hooked it to the back of a 4×4 vehicle before accelerating and bringing down the heavy gravestone.
In the days following, Carroll shot Eddie Lyons Jnr and a friend in Bellshill, Lanarkshire, before a retaliation hit was carried out a week later in Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire.
Days after shooting and injuring Eddie Lyons Jnr again, Carroll arranged a meeting at Asda car park in Robroyston to poach Lyons-linked drug dealer Stephen Glen on January 13, 2010.
While Gerbil sat in the back of a black Audi A3, two masked men jumped out of a Volkswagen Golf and opened fire. Carroll’s two associates had fled the vehicle leaving him trapped in the back of the three-door car.
He was shot in the head and chest 13 times in a brazen assassination in front of shocked shoppers.
William “Buff” Paterson, was jailed for 22 years over the killing of Carroll. He handed himself in to a police station in Madrid after fleeing the country over four years previous.
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