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Gangster

Introducing Gangster: The Story of the Daniels and the Lyons

Gangster

BBC

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

A bloody and bitter feud between two of Glasgow's most notorious crime families which has raged for more than two decades, leading to violence and murder.

Why the Daniel crime group and the Lyons crime group fell out isn’t clear. The story goes it was linked to the theft of a stash of drugs – or because the Lyons were encroaching on Daniel territory. Whatever the cause, the dispute exploded into a series of astonishingly violent tit for tat attacks which have cast a dark shadow over the city of Glasgow. The most high profile – the very public assassination of Daniel’s enforcer Kevin “Gerbil” Carroll. He was shot dead in a hail of bullets in front of terrified shoppers in an Asda carpark in 2010.

Delving into Glasgow’s gangland past and it’s history of violent crime, the series hears from former gangsters, ordinary members of the public caught up in this vicious turf war and the police officers fighting to take down the mobsters.

Many of those at the heart of the violence are now locked up in prison – or dead. But the fear is that this is a feud which is so ingrained it could go on for generations to come.

Presenter Livvy Haydock Series producer: Paul Grant Producer: Patrick Kiteley Journalism assistant: Tim Fernley Editor and executive producer: Carl Johnston

Transcript

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0:00.0

In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers.

0:08.0

But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA

0:12.0

was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife.

0:18.0

Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family?

0:21.3

When lies are still being told to this day, who do you believe?

0:25.1

I wouldn't even know where to start, and I'm with the IRA.

0:28.5

Steakknife.

0:29.7

Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:33.5

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0:37.3

Glasgow is a very violent city, but this just transcends all the boundaries.

0:42.9

An all-out bloody war on the streets of Glasgow.

0:46.7

You're either with the Daniel family or you're with the Lions family.

0:50.8

There's no in between.

0:52.3

Two crime groups battling for control of the illicit drug trade.

0:57.3

The feud between the lion and dials resulted in perhaps 30, 40 different tit-for-tat instance.

1:03.2

It's almost of biblical scales. Just before 10 o'clock last night, the two victims.

1:08.3

Deadly turf war being played out on their streets.

1:11.3

Police think it's the work of a criminal gang.

1:14.1

They just slashed, fire bombed and shot their way through the city of Glasgow,

1:19.3

terrorising people wherever they went.

1:21.6

A city steeped in gang culture.

1:24.4

I originally had the gun pressed against my forehead.

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