Scotland's Narco Blood Feud Explodes!

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

When cops on the English coast busted a bid to bring in a huge shipment of cocaine in 2020, it sent shockwaves through the underworld hundreds of miles north in Scotland, where the drugs were destined for, and reignited a bitter feud between the Lyons and Daniel crime families that had simmered for almost two decades. Today, with a third, international gang entering the fray, the feud has spilled into all-out war, with residents of Glasgow and Edinburgh watching in horror as homes burn and bodies drop. But how did it all begin — and where will the violence end? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	It's September 2020 in Dover, a town on the Kink Coast some 80 miles southeast of London, and Britain's
1:07.0	border force is about to hit the jackpot.
1:10.0	It's six months since cops all over Europe cracked encro chat,
1:13.6	a messaging service used by the continent's biggest narco traffickers.
1:18.6	And the Dover team is sure there is a big shipment of cocaine hidden in consignments of fruit
1:24.6	arriving from Latin America.
1:26.6	They've already searched 17 loads in that time.
1:29.5	They found nothing.
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