Thirteen shots in a supermarket car park is the kind of detail you never forget, especially when it happens in broad daylight with families loading shopping into their boots. We start there, with the killing of Kevin Carroll, a key Daniel crime family enforcer, and follow the chain of planning, surveillance and discipline that turns violence into a near-industrial process.

From that moment, we rewind to Possil Park and the economic collapse that reshaped North Glasgow. We talk through how Jamie Daniel builds a sophisticated organised crime operation from a local base, using a scrap metal business as cover, creating money laundering routes, and most importantly developing a direct heroin supply line from Pakistan that helps turn Possil into “the Jungle”. This is Glasgow gangland history told through logistics, loyalty and the separation between the man at the top and the men who do the damage.

Then comes the trigger: a £20,000 cocaine theft in 2001 that becomes a matter of status, not cash, igniting the Daniel Lyons feud. We trace the Apple Row Motors shooting, the revenge cycle that follows, Jamie Daniel’s illness and death, and how the conflict expands into the international space, including Dubai arrests and a Costa del Sol double assassination. The big question we keep returning to is simple: when the leader goes, does the empire survive, or does it become territory waiting to be divided?

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