BBC Scotland house affairs correspondent
SPINDRIFTA person suspected of murdering two senior figures from a Scottish organised crime group in a Spanish bar has been arrested.
The BBC understands he was taken into custody in Liverpool by Merseyside Police beneath a global arrest warrant issued by the Spanish authorities.
Ross Monaghan, 43, and Eddie Lyons Jnr, 46, had been shot useless at Monaghans Bar in Fuengirola within the Costa Del Sol on 31 Might.
Each males had been related to the Lyons household, a significant organised crime group based mostly within the west of Scotland.
The 2 males had been watching the Champions League remaining with pals after they had been focused on the bar on the Andalusian city’s beachfront.
In response to medical stories, Eddie Lyons Jnr died after being hit by a single bullet exterior the bar in entrance of pals and clients.
CCTV additionally confirmed the gunman pursuing Monaghan contained in the pub and firing extra photographs, leaving him fatally injured.
Scottish detectives have been serving to the Spanish police with their investigation, offering info on the lads’s backgrounds.
Within the wake of the killings, Police Scotland issued a press release saying there was no intelligence to recommend the deaths had been linked to an ongoing gangland feud within the east and west of Scotland’s central belt.
Greater than 40 individuals have been arrested following a sequence of violent incidents, together with alleged tried murders and firebombings.
The drive additionally mentioned there was nothing to recommend that the taking pictures was deliberate in Scotland.
The Lyons clan have been locked in a long-running feud with the rival Daniels household.
Monaghan was beforehand linked to the high-profile killing of feared Glasgow gangland determine Kevin ‘Gerbil’ Carroll, an enforcer for the Daniels.
He was accused of the homicide in a Glasgow grocery store automotive park in 2010, however was later acquitted on account of a scarcity of proof.
Monaghan was himself later shot within the shoulder as he dropped his daughter off in school in Glasgow in 2017.
He’s believed to have moved to Spain a short while later.
Lyons Jnr was additionally shot and wounded in an assault in 2006, which was believed to have been carried out by Carroll.
The 2 teams have traded various violent assaults for about 20 years.
