Man arrested over capturing of Scots in Spanish bar

A person suspected of murdering two senior figures from a Scottish organised crime staff in a Spanish bar has been arrested.

The BBC understands Michael Riley was once taken into custody in Liverpool via Merseyside Police beneath a global arrest warrant issued via the Spanish government.

Ross Monaghan, 43, and Eddie Lyons Jnr, 46, have been shot lifeless at Monaghans Bar in Fuengirola within the Costa Del Sol on 31 May.

Both males have been hooked up to the Lyons circle of relatives, a significant organised crime staff primarily based within the west of Scotland.

The two males were gazing the Champions League ultimate with buddies after they have been focused on the bar at the Andalusian the town’s beachfront.

According to clinical experiences, Eddie Lyons Jnr died after being hit via a unmarried bullet outdoor the bar in entrance of buddies and consumers.

CCTV additionally confirmed the gunman pursuing Monaghan within the pub and firing extra pictures, leaving him fatally injured.

Scottish detectives had been serving to the Spanish police with their investigation, offering data at the males’s backgrounds.

In the wake of the killings, Police Scotland issued a remark pronouncing there was once no intelligence to indicate the deaths have been related to an ongoing gangland feud within the east and west of Scotland’s central belt.

More than 40 other people had been arrested following a sequence of violent incidents, together with alleged tried murders and firebombings.

The drive additionally stated there was once not anything to indicate that the capturing was once deliberate in Scotland.

The Lyons extended family had been locked in a long-running feud with the rival Daniels circle of relatives.

Monaghan was once up to now related to the high-profile killing of feared Glasgow gangland determine Kevin ‘Gerbil’ Carroll, an enforcer for the Daniels.

He was once accused of the homicide in a Glasgow grocery store automobile park in 2010, however was once later acquitted because of a loss of proof.

Monaghan was once himself later shot within the shoulder as he dropped his daughter off in school in Glasgow in 2017.

He is thought to have moved to Spain a short while later.

Lyons Jnr was once additionally shot and wounded in an assault in 2006, which was once believed to had been performed via Carroll.

The two teams have traded a lot of violent assaults for roughly 20 years.