The 19-year-old man and middleman who ripped off Kingpin Ross McGill are on the run in the desert.
The man who sparked Scotland’s gang war is robbing fellow hoods while on the run in Dubai.
The 19-year-old, who can’t be named for legal reasons, has been hiding out in the desert after ripping off kingpin Ross McGill in a £500k fake cash deal ordered by cocaine baron Mark Richardson last year.
Footsoldiers from McGill’s Tamo Junto (TMJ) gang are hunting the teenage dealer after ordering a skip lorry to ram his mother’s Edinburgh home.
A source told the Record the hood has been looting luxury watches and dirty cash from fellow gangsters in organised robberies in the United Arab Emirates.
“He brought a lot of heat to Richardson’s gang and has been cut off,” an insider said.
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“While he’s been laying low he has formed a close relationship with the Edinburgh middleman who introduced him to McGill.
“They both got a small cut for ripping off McGill but they are desperate. They’ve teamed up and are breaking apartments and stealing cash, high-end goods and watches to sell for a fraction of the price.
“Big players walk around carrying rolls of bank notes in Dubai.
“They’ve been getting intelligence on who to target because other criminals won’t report the robberies to the police.
“You can’t do that sort of thing forever, you have to wonder where it will end for them.
“The pair of them won’t be coming home to Scotland anytime soon. They are TMJ’s most wanted.”
A picture shared with the Record shows the dealer and the middleman – who we cannot name for legal reasons – pictured together in a bar weeks before the gang war started.
Weeks later the middleman was tracked down in Thailand and brutally slashed across the face.
Last week McGill, who is understood to be on the run in Russia, instructed his Tamo Junto army to plough a skip lorry into the home of the teen dealer’s mum.
She was targeted after she flew out to visit him and bragged about her trip online.
Tamo Junto released footage of the truck smashing through the front of the home on Brand Drive in the Portobello area of Edinburgh.
A message from the group then read: “If you want to visit your rodent of a son in Dubai and post online – expect consequences.”
The attack sparked a menacing warning from Mark Richardson who threatened McGill with a ‘bullet to the head’.
The coke dealer’s footsoldiers A-Team gang also vowed to target McGill’s family.
In a post shared on line, the A-Team said: “McGill, come back to Scotland, you rodent because we are taking you out, rat boy.
“Attacking a woman, you wee rat. This isn’t a threat, this is a promise.
“You are getting a bullet to the head.
“You wrong one, if you don’t come back then your family are getting it.”
Ross McGill, known as Mr Big, launched the gang war in March of last year. His TMJ hoods targeted properties and businesses in Edinburgh linked to Richardson, 39, in a series of firebomb and gun attacks.
The violence spread to Glasgow within weeks where the Daniel crime clan were next in the gang’s sight’s due to their association with Richardson.
Steven Lyons, 45, head of the notorious Lyons mob is believed to have been feeding McGill with information to identify Daniel targets, with the family being his crew’s arch enemies in a feud that has lasted for decades.
Homes and businesses connected to the Daniels were torched and shot at before the violence halted when Lyons’ brother Eddie, 46, and key lieutenant Ross Monaghan, 43, were gunned down in the Costa Del Sol.
Spanish cops blamed the Daniel clan, but Police Scotland insisted the deaths were not linked to the gang war.
McGill and Steven Lyons were booted out of Dubai in September after authorities in the UAE probed their links to organised crime.
They flitted between neighbouring Gulf states before Lyons travelled to Bali at the end of March where he was detained on an Interpol Red Notice.
He was taken to Amsterdam and held on a European Arrest Warrant. He is expected to face a hearing this week to begin his extradition to Spain to face charges relating to his criminal network.
Sources claimed the Lyons empire was crumbling, but a series of retaliation attacks were launched in the wake of his arrest.
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