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Chapter 1: What is the significance of separating rival gang members in Spanish prisons?
Two rival expat criminals who were due to end up in the same Spanish jail are being separated to prisons more than 10 hours apart for their own security. Gang boss Stephen Lyons from Scotland and the man accused of his brother Eddie's murder will not be housed together after authorities move to Liverpool and Michael Riley to the north of the country.
Today I'm talking with Niall Donald and you're listening to Crime World, a podcast from CrimeWorld.com. and can tell you the story. Go on. Is this confusing? I don't know.
Well, you haven't heard it yet, but I imagine it is confusing.
Okay. Our... Scottish Brethren, as we will call them, the hoods that keep us interested in Scottish gangland who are very heavily connected with the Kinahan organisation over pretty much two decades. And really the sort of the truth of that entire initial connection has never been uncovered totally, although...
It was Christy Kinahan Senior that seems to have made the initial contacts between the Lyons family and his own outfit. Anyway, so there's a few things going on. So Stephen Lyons...
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Chapter 2: Who are Steven Lyons and Michael Riley in the context of this feud?
is currently in custody in the Netherlands. He was returned there from?
He was returned there from Bali after being kicked out of Dubai. It was like a question.
It was, they're trying to catch me out. Children of Bali. We are on the same team here now. So this was March 28th, right? He was arrested there. Now he is going to be moved to Spain.
Yes, so he was extradited from Bali, but for whatever reason, they just extradited him to the EU.
They tried, I think, to remove him from the Emirates first. The Spanish police sent word to the Emirates that they wanted him. But the Emirates arrested him and said to him, fly wherever you want, my child, off you go. And he chose Bali.
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Chapter 3: What led to the extradition of Steven Lyons from Bali to Spain?
Yeah, I think they basically said, we're not, you know, extradition proceedings could take this amount of time. Or you can just leave the country yourself of your own volition. Yeah. And he effectively chose Bali.
So then the Spanish sent their money laundering and gang membership sort of suspicions charges to Bali who returned him to the Netherlands. Yeah. And now he's gone back. He's heading for Spain. He's heading for Spain. But they all end up in Al-Harin de la Torre prison, which is outside Malaga. And I nearly feel...
I know it now because of all the Irish that have gone through it, been held in it and have been released from it. Yeah. Because usually they will, especially when it comes to gangland offences, get bail. But anyway, so he's going to be moved there, right?
Chapter 4: What role does the Al-Harin de la Torre prison play in this story?
And There's a guy called Michael Riley who's in that prison. Yeah. Has been in that prison. And he is suspected of murdering Ross Monaghan and Eddie Lyons, who is Stephen Lyons' brother.
Yeah.
At a bar in... Fongarola. Fongarola. Um... A year ago? A year ago, which is incredible.
That is hard to believe, isn't it? It is hard to believe. Eddie Lyons certainly had been linked to Stephen Lyons' criminal organisation, but very much as a lesser role. He wasn't regarded as being a very, very serious gangland criminal.
Chapter 5: How are the murders of Ross Monaghan and Eddie Lyons connected to the gang feud?
However, Ross Monaghan would have been regarded as being one of the primary movers in that criminal organisation. They had remained in Spain while Stephen Lyons had left for Dubai, like a lot of the other major European gangland figures. And they'd been continued, Ross Monaghan had been involved in the running of this bar in Fongarola. They were in there watching the Champions League final.
and a gunman came in and shot them down really in front of a back crowd. And it was regarded as being a very, very significant killing because of a number of factors. I mean, similar to Ireland, there's been this long running feud known as the Daniel Lyons feud between two clans really, and it's gone over two decades effectively.
There's been a number of shootings on both sides, a number of murders. So initially, obviously, that was the primary thing that people focused in on. This is likely part of the feud. But it's also, once the police made an arrest, it started to get very murky, I suppose. And ultimately, a guy called Michael Reilly was arrested and charged and extradited from the UK to Spain.
Yeah. And the Spanish police actually stated that the murders were part of the feud, whereas Police Scotland stated categorically and categorically that they had no evidence of such.
Yes.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of the Daniel Lyons feud on criminal activities in Scotland?
And I mean, you know, so that is yet to be... Now, Reilly is originally from Liverpool, I think. He's originally from Liverpool. Obviously, You know, the connections between gangs in Liverpool and Scotland and in Ireland are very strong and highly, you know, developed.
But obviously what has gone on in the last couple of years has been this vicious feud within, on the streets of Scotland, where there have been just a never ending series of arson attacks, shootings, assaults. focused in, again, on the Lions and Daniels gang, but really also bringing in other criminal organisations or other people that are associated with both sides.
So, like happened during the Hutchins-Kinnan feud, I suppose, that other sort of sub-organisations gangs started feuding within that context as well. So there's been a couple of major players in Scotland, two in particular, a guy called Ross Miami McGill and a guy called Mark Richardson.
You know, Mark Richardson would have been associated with the Daniels side, Ross Miami McGill would have been associated with the Lyons side, but to a degree they're operating separately anyway. So it is a confusing picture. But Michael Reilly, as you said, he was arrested.
And the Spanish, as they can do, you know, which were very unused, they released these kind of really detailed and damning statements at times.
Well, I'd say it's because the magistrate largely investigates most of the case. So they've already completed their investigation by the time they hand over the files to the magistrate.
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Chapter 7: How does the Spanish police view the gang affiliations of Michael Riley?
And so the The actual trials in front of jury are really only for sentence purposes.
Yeah, I mean, of course, it's, you know, the magistrates investigate it as opposed to... It's not a, you know, they put the evidence before the court in stages and then it can get to a jury trial really if... They'll accept or dismiss parts of it.
Yes. The long and the short of it is that Riley, who has been, you know, in this Al-Harin de la Torre prison, has now been upsticked and they have moved him 700 miles away to this other maximum security lockup. And it's called Texero Prison in the Spanish Northwest region of Galicia. It's a ten and a half hour drive from the place where he was being held.
And he was going to have to be returned there when he is to appear before the magistrate, etc. But the reason being that, of course, Stephen Lyons is on his way into that prison.
And clearly, while they haven't actually come out and stated it, sources out there are saying that these are remand prisons, you know, Alharin de la Torre, very difficult to, particularly with foreign prisoners who are coming in, to determine exactly who are their enemies or who are not.
And they're afraid that never the twain should meet behind bars at some point or that either could, you know, convince other prisoners inmates to carry out some offences for them.
Yeah, because the remand prisons in Spain, they actually do have quite a degree of freedom because, you know, they're really only persons of interests technically.
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Chapter 8: What can we expect from the ongoing investigations and future court cases?
So they're allowed to have, you know, they're allowed to associate freely within some of the prisons anyway. Now, maybe that there's some prisoners that aren't allowed to do that because of security concerns. So it clearly wouldn't be feasible to have Stephen Lyon's relatively open environment next to the man who's suspected of killing his beloved brother, you know.
Now the Stephen Lyon investigation, we have a sense of what that's going to be about. It really focuses in on... I suppose, money laundering as a result of drug dealing, you know, and how he operated a number of businesses through places like Port-au-Pinus and other parts of Malaga in order to wash the illegal drug money.
Obviously, his connections in particular to Johnny Morrissey are expected to play a big role in this trial. Johnny Morrissey was, you know, obviously connected with the Kinahan cartel. He was sanctioned by the U.S. or his one of a company linked to him was sanctioned by the U.S. government as part of the sanctions laid down on the Kinahans. a colourful character to say the least.
And he's suspected of operating a money laundering service for really gangs like the Lions, which are really effectively a franchise for the Kenyan cartel.
Now, our colleague in Spain, Ger Cousins, was writing about this new prison that Riley has now been held in. And it's new enough. 1998, it opened with
just over a thousand inmates and it's already been modernized but he talks about the prison making headlines in 2021 with a then pioneering mixed gender cell block called the Nelson Mandela wing although Riley isn't in that it's believed it is the home of a guy called do you know this the Asunta case on Netflix 2024 I don't either do I yeah Maybe we should look at it.
Apparently Alfonso Bastera, who was sentenced to 18 years behind bars, is subject of this, the Asunta case. Maybe some of our listeners or viewers can let us know if it's worth binging on. He was sentenced to 18 years in 2013 because of the murder of his adopted 12-year-old daughter. And then there's others in there, including ETA terrorist Jose Antonio Borde. Oh God. There's another name there.
Go on. Gastelmende. Yeah. Actually, Spanish is quite easy.
Well, you don't know that you got it right. You're just presuming you got it right.
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