How two rival crime families turned Glasgow into a ‘war zone’

Meanwhile, the Lyons group responded to Daniel’s death with a brutal campaign of intimidation against his associates, which included five attempted murders in five months.

Robert Daniel was the first target.

On 8 December 2016 his car was rammed by another vehicle before he was chased into a house in Robroyston.

Once inside he was struck twice on the back of the head with what he later told police was a hatchet or a machete.

Asked in court if he was aware of any ill-feeling between the Daniel and Lyons families, Robert, 29, replied: “Not that I know of.”

A month later Thomas Bilsland, 31, suffered a fractured skull after he was set upon in Glasgow’s Cranhill.

The next victim, Gary Petty, was targeted after he visited an Italian restaurant on 7 March 2017.

A court heard the 22-year-old was getting out his Volkswagen Golf when he was ambushed in Maryhill.

Ryan Fitzsimmons, 34, was attacked by a masked gang on 28 April 2017 outside his home in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire.

The former soldier, who was left brain damaged, told the trial: “It felt like death was coming.”

His mother Geraldine, 61, was so affected by what happened that she suffered a heart attack in the street.

Mr Fitzsimmons told jurors he had “no enemies” but jurors heard his older brother was once charged with shooting Ross Monaghan, the man cleared of murdering Carroll in 2010.