Mob boss Ross McGill returns to social media from Portugal bolthole after Dubai launch
The mob boss, also known as ‘Miami’, was released from Dubai prison in September after being ordered to leave the UAE and never return over his connections to organised crime
Crime boss Ross McGill has emerged on social media from his hideout in Portugal. The 31-year-old kingpin was freed from a Dubai desert prison in September following a 12-day stint behind bars with fellow underworld figures Steven Lyons, 44, Stephen ‘Jimmy’ Jamieson, 42, and Steven Larwood, 42.
Officials subsequently ordered the criminals to quit the United Arab Emirates permanently after interrogating them about their links to organised crime. McGill is thought to have been weighing up his relocation options ever since.
But the infamous gangster has now emerged on platform X, using the handle @RossMcG1872, reports the Daily Record. His account, established in August, features a fresh profile photo of the drugs baron beaming through a set of gleaming veneers.
McGill, nicknamed ‘Miami’, appears to be flaunting a smoother appearance, sporting a shaved head and neatly trimmed facial hair whilst posing in a nightclub. His biography simply reads ‘Union Bears,’ honouring the Rangers ultras he once commanded before fleeing Scotland.
The profile has posted numerous updates from the supporters’ group alongside a photograph of their stand at Ibrox during a match against Celtic this season. An underworld insider revealed to the Record that McGill has grown increasingly nostalgic about his days leading the Union Bears whilst in exile over a thousand miles from home.
They confided to the Record: “The only thing McGill misses about Scotland is going to the football with the Union Bears. He knows he can’t return, but he stays in touch with some of the boys in the group and still has some influence.
“It breaks his heart knowing that he won’t ever be able to go to games again. But, wherever he is in the world he will always tune in and watch Rangers games.”
The Record previously revealed how McGill had been handed the opportunity to flee to Morocco via his links with Mocro cartel kingpin Ridouan Taghi. Taghi, 47, was branded “a well-oiled killing machine” when he was locked up for life last year in the Netherlands.
McGill struck up friendships with Taghi’s lads Faissal and Adil whilst living the high life in Dubai. Faissal was shipped back to the Netherlands when his father was imprisoned, but his brother Adil disappeared and is thought to be residing in Morocco.
Adil is understood to have reached out to McGill and presented him with the chance to join him there. The Record disclosed in April how McGill’s bond with Taghi’s sons provided him with the opportunity to collaborate with some of the world’s most powerful drug cartels to “flood every area in Scotland with cocaine.”
McGill’s narcotics trafficking and turf war in Scotland with Edinburgh crime lord Mark Richardson over a haul of pinched coke ground to a halt following his arrest in Dubai.
The criminal had been battling Richardson’s gang and his allies, Glasgow’s Daniel clan, after they paid for the cocaine using counterfeit banknotes. Businesses and homes were set ablaze, and rivals were attacked with machetes as McGill’s Tamo Junto (TMJ) group ruthlessly sought vengeance.
Steven Lyons is believed to have been feeding McGill’s TMJ crew with intel about the movements of Richardson’s gang and the Daniel clan. His brother Eddie and key ally Ross Monaghan were brutally gunned down in Spain on 31 May, but Scottish police maintain that these shootings are not connected to the TMJ turf war.
Police Scotland has nabbed 62 individuals under their Operation Portaledge investigation into the conflict.
Liam McDermid, 25, became the first individual to be imprisoned over the gang war when he was handed a sentence of six years and nine months last week.
Police observed as he used a metal detector to locate a concealed handgun in undergrowth in Edinburgh.
Officers later retrieved the semi-automatic Glock pistol and 10 rounds of 9mm ammunition from the area.
