A Glasgow crime boss has been seen regularly attending football games with a drug-dealing rapist nicknamed Hannibal the Cannibal.
Clan boss Steven “Bonzo” Daniel, who was left seriously disfigured after being ambushed, regularly attends matches with Spencer Mellors. Mellors was jailed in 1996 for nine years after holding a prostitute hostage for nine hours, raping her and biting her, the Daily Record reports.
He was later locked up for four years in 2008 after being caught with £100,000 worth of drugs, and was quizzed over the street shooting of Glasgow gran Louise Brown in the same year. He was also twice jailed for domestic abuse.
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Daniel, 43, and Mellors, 58, have been seen together at a number of Rangers matches and were recently photographed together in the crowd at Hampden during the Scottish Cup semi-final against Celtic at the weekend.
A source said: “I’ve seen them both plenty at Ibrox this season. They’ve also been to away matches as well.
“They were at McDiarmid Park for the St Johnstone match earlier this season and were also at Fir Park together for the tie against Motherwell.
“They’re basically joined at the hip. Bonzo is a very private guy given his status, the previous attempt on his life and attacks on associates.
“He must really trust Spencer to let him in and have been with him so much. If something was to kick off, Spencer is exactly the kinda guy you’d want to have by your side.”
Last year, a home linked to Bonzo was targeted by masked thugs, who rammed a car into the porch, leaving the property badly damaged.
The £340,000 villa, in Bishopbriggs, near Glasgow, is owned by his partner Avril Connell and was bought in 2003.
Police said this week that nobody has been arrested over the November 2022 attack and that inquiries are ongoing.
The house was previously placed under police guard after Bonzo, who is also known as Steven Peebles, was mutilated by rivals in 2017.
Police guarded the home during the attempted murder trial of those behind the attack, which left him sporting grotesque facial wounds.
He was rammed off the road near Glasgow’s M8 while making his way home from a Rangers game and attacked by weapon-wielding rivals.
His tongue was shredded and his teeth and jaw bone were left exposed in a knife attack so severe his injuries left medics believing he’d been shot.
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