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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Robyn Vinter

The final hit: Is Glasgow’s 25-year gruesome gangland feud finally over?

A black and white photo of a bottle with flames emerging, overlaid with a blue-tinted cropped image of a face and wrists in handcuffs
Scottish Crime copy Composite: Guardian Design/Getty/Strathclyde Police

It was a warm evening in Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol last year when two Scottish men met a violent end.

The punters of Monaghans seafront bar had barely finished watching the Champions League final on 31 May when a car pulled up outside. A masked gunman emerged and headed to the table of 46-year-old Eddie Lyons Jr, shooting him at point-blank range. The assassin turned the gun on Lyons’ friend, the bar’s owner Ross Monaghan, 43, but it jammed.

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