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Daniels enforcer Craig 'Rob Roy' Gallagher's life of crime amid gangland turf war
@Source: dailyrecord.co.uk
Feared hardman Craig "Rob Roy" Gallagher has operated as a Daniels associate for more than two decades. The Glasgow crime clans' bloody feud with rival mob Lyons has seen Gallagher implicated in two murders and targeted in an assassination attempt. On Tuesday morning a business unit in Bishopbriggs linked to Gallagher was targeted in the latest gangland turf war attack blighting Scotland. It is thought the gangland feud was sparked after a Dubai-based Glasgow hood was ripped off in a £500,000 cocaine deal. The Daniel crime family were warned to "leave Scotland now" alongside cocaine kingpin Mark Richardson in a shocking video filming the fire attacks. Henchman Gallagher, 45, has himself racked up 23 convictions , for a number of offences, and is nicknamed Rob Roy after the Scottish outlaw. We look at his crime career from the torture abductions to slain gang members. Born in 1979, Gallagher secured his first conviction in 1998. He has gone on to be convicted of offences on a further 22 occasions, taking his criminal record to 23 convictions . It is alleged he gained the nickname Rob Roy in his youth due to a series of robberies. On November 16, 2006, Gallagher, then aged 27, and his social worker girlfriend Claire Duffy were with Ross Sherlock and Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll in Bishopbriggs , near Glasgow, when a gunman opened fire on them. Sherlock and Gerbil were shot in the incident, with Gallagher and another associate escaping uninjured. Gerbil and his associates were known as the Alien Abduction Gang because all their victims claimed to have no memory of their attackers. It is claimed they posed as armed police officers and carried out sickening attacks which saw them torturing rival dealers . They stole cash, drugs and guns from their criminal counterparts . The crazed crew were linked to at least a dozen incidents across Scotland, with victims said to have been 'taxed' by the gang in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Lanarkshire, and Renfrewshire . It was long suspected that Gallagher may have been involved in the crew. Gerbil was lured to his death at the Asda supermarket in Glasgow's Robroyston area on January 13, 2010. He was locked in the back of a car and died in a hail of 13 bullets. Close pal Gallagher, who was 30 at the time, was arrested over his death. He later became one of eight men named in court as possibly being involved in the hit. Sources claimed Gallagher’s friendship with Carroll turned sour after he allegedly started carrying out his own abductions. At the time sources said police were investigating whether Gerbil's murder was an inside job in the Daniels crime gang amid reports he had "gone rogue". In July 2017, Gallagher suffered an assassination attempt when he was lured to a derelict house and tortured. He was stabbed and set on fire at a derelict building in New Stevenston, North Lanarkrshire , but managed to escape from the building, which exploded. The 38-year-old drove himself six miles to Monklands General Hospital in a blood-smeared van, while being chased by a man in a car and another man with a knife . The attack came two weeks after longtime pal Steven "Bonzo" Daniel was slashed across the face with a machete after a high-speed car chase through Glasgow. On December 17, 2019, Gallagher's Boxer-Pitbull cross mauled a woman outside his home in Torrance, Dunbartonshire, while she was visiting one of his neighbours. Victim Marion Penman was left badly hurt in the attack which saw the mutt latch onto her elbow and leg. Officers investigating the incident seized the animal , but Gallagher warned: "Just put the f***ing dog down then, I will buy a bigger more aggressive dog anyway." An unknown thief later broke into the kennels where the pet pooch was being kept and stole it. Gallagher was banned from keeping dogs over the case when he appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court. HMRC chiefs named Gallagher as a tax dodger in 2020. The body said he had avoided making payments of more than £35,000 due for his carpet and flooring business. Gallagher was caught on camera in a van ramming into a car in Glasgow's Milton area on August 26, 2021. A few hours later, just a short distance away, Lyons associate John Quinn McGregor was blasted with a shotgun by Daniels member Malcom McNee. McGregor, 44, underwent open heart surgery at the scene. He later died in hospital , and McNee, Gallagher and Reece Trainer were arrested in connection with the case. They went on trial together at the High Court in Glasgow, but the charges against Gallagher were dropped. McNee was jailed for a minimum of 22 years over the murder at the High Court in Stirling on Friday, while Reece Trainer was jailed for 54 months for his role in the killing. Gallagher later pleaded guilty over a separate Incident involving other members of the rival Lyons crime family. Last week Gallagher was jailed for a broad daylight axe attack on rivals from the Lyons crime syndicate, which he carried out on September 21, 2021. He chased his victims down a street while armed with the weapon, after swerving through traffic to get to them. Believing they had made death threats against his son , he swerved across lanes, jumped from the vehicle and approached them as they were driving in a Volkswagen Golf. He shouted aggressively to them and some of them ran away from him down Kirkintilloch Road, near Bishopbriggs , during the incident, while the driver remained by the side of her car. Gallagher shouted aggressively at her, while still in possession of the axe, before he returned to his Toyota Hilux . He was jailed for two years and six months.
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