BBC Scotland residence 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 below a global arrest warrant issued by the Spanish authorities.
Ross Monaghan, 43, and Eddie Lyons Jnr, 46, have been shot lifeless at Monaghans Bar in Fuengirola within the Costa Del Sol on 31 Could.
Each males have been related to the Lyons household, a serious organised crime group primarily based within the west of Scotland.
Merseyside Police stated the 44-year-old arrested over the shootings had appeared at Westminster Magistrates Courtroom on Saturday morning.
He has been remanded in custody and can seem in courtroom once more at a later date.
Eddie Lyons Jnr and Ross Monaghan had been watching the Champions League ultimate with pals after they have been focused on the bar on the Andalusian city’s beachfront.
In accordance with medical stories, Lyons Jnr died after being hit by a single bullet outside 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 data on the boys’s backgrounds.
Within the wake of the killings, Police Scotland issued a press release saying there was no intelligence to suggest the deaths were linked to an ongoing gangland feud within the east and west of Scotland’s central belt.
Greater than 40 folks have been arrested following a sequence of violent incidents, together with alleged tried murders and firebombings.
The power additionally stated there was nothing to counsel 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 as a result of a scarcity of proof.
Monaghan was himself later shot within the shoulder as he dropped his daughter off at college 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 quite a lot of violent assaults for about 20 years.
