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Two gangsters who were shot dead in Spain received two funerals.

 The two hearses making their way to a funeral home in Bishopbriggs A joint funeral has been held for two major crime figures more than a month after they were shot dead in a Spanish bar.

 Eddie Lyons Jnr and Ross Monaghan were gunned down in a beachfront bar in Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol on 31 May.

 Both men had spent the evening watching the Champions League final before they were targeted, just before midnight, by a lone gunman.

 A full extradition hearing for Michael Riley, 44, of Liverpool, has been scheduled for later this year. Spanish police have charged him with the murders. At Bishopbriggs Crematorium in East Dunbartonshire, hundreds of mourners gathered on Friday to pay their respects to Lyons Jr., 46, and Monaghan, 43. Two silver hearses carried the coffins with floral tributes that said "Dad" and "Son".

Eddie Lyons Jnr (left) and Ross Monaghan were leading members of the Lyons crime group

 Both men were linked to the Lyons crime group, which is based in the west of Scotland.

 It has been engaged in a violent feud with the Daniel family and their associates which dates back more than two decades.

 In Bellshill, Lanarkshire, Daniel clan enforcer Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll ambushed Lyons Jr. and nearly killed him 18 years earlier. It followed an incident which was widely credited with taking the rivalry with the Daniel family to another level.

 In November 2006 Carroll allegedly used a 4x4 and a tow rope to topple the headstone of Eddie Jnr's brother, Garry, who was only eight when he died of leukaemia in 1991.


Monaghans bar, where Lyons Jnr and Mongahan were shot dead, has since been renamed

 Two men in a blue Mazda pulled up in front of a garage in Lambhill, north of Glasgow, the following month. Raymond Anderson and James McDonald put on old man face masks, then walked into Applerow Motors and opened fire.

 The owner, David Lyons, took cover but his 21-year-old nephew Michael - Eddie Jnr's cousin - was shot dead.

 Eddie's brother, Steven, was injured along with his associate Robert Pickett.

 Carroll was shot to death on January 13, 2010, outside of an Asda in Robroyston, Glasgow, that was packed with lunchtime shoppers, adding another victim to the feud.


In 2007, Eddie Lyons Jr. was able to escape a previous shooting.


Ross Monaghan went on trial for the murder of Kevin "Gerbil" Carrol in but was acquitted in 2012

 Mongahan was arrested over the murder in August 2010 but he was acquitted in May 2012 after a judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence to convict him.

 After dropping off his child, he was shot in the shoulder outside a Glasgow primary school less than five years later. The gunman was pushing a child's buggy when he opened fire on Muirdykes Road near St George's Primary, Penilee.

 Two associates of the Daniel group were both cleared of the attack at a trial but were later convicted for other organised crime offences.

 Monaghan is believed to have moved to Spain soon after the school shooting.

 It was reported that he owned the Costa del Sol bar, bearing his name, where he and Lyons Jnr were killed.

 It has since reopened under a new name.

 The double murder follows a wave of gangland violence in Scotland since March.

 It has resulted in a series of assaults, shootings and firebombings against individuals linked to the Daniel group in the east and west of the country.

 Detectives working on Operation Portaledge, set up in response to the violence, have so far made 50 arrests.

 Police Scotland has maintained it has no evidence the double murder is linked to the feud, despite conflicting claims by a senior Spanish officer.

 Chief Supt Pedro Agudo Novo last month confirmed Lyons and Monaghan were killed within seconds of each other by a lone gunman who fled the scene on foot.

 The officer claims that after the suspect shot and killed Lyons Jr. outside the bar, his gun jammed. He then pursued Monaghan inside and fired two more shots which proved fatal.

 Chief Supt Agudo Novo last month highlighted the "professionalism" of the shootings and the suspect's "perfectly planned" escape from Spain.

 He also alleged that the killer was a member of the Daniel crime group.

 BBC Scotland News understands that investigators in Spain and in Scotland were surprised by Chief Supt Agudo Novo's public statement.

 International arrest warrant

 The position of Scottish detectives is that there is "no current evidence" linking the shootings to the Daniel group.

 Police Scotland reiterated the carefully worded statement they issued three days after the murders in response to Chief Supt. Novo's remarks. In addition, the force "wasn't aware" of any evidence that the murders were connected to the feud or planned from Scotland, Chief Constable Jo Farrell stated last week. Michael Riley, of Huyton, was arrested on an international arrest warrant in the Liverpool area on 13 June in connection with the shootings.

 Mr. Riley appeared in London's Westminster Magistrates' Court on June 20. He responded, "No, I do not," when the court clerk asked if he wanted to consent to being extradited back to Spain. Mr Riley, who was remanded in custody, will return to court in October for an extradition hearing.

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