A brutal jail attack on a notorious hitman is linked to the rise of a fugitive mobster waging war on caged kingpin mark richardson, underworld sources have claimed. In recent years, hmp edinburgh, also known as saughton prison, has been home to some of scotland's most violent offenders Here are some of the most infamous names who have been locked up in. The violent gang war in scotland is intensifying as a faction of gangsters wages open conflict on mark richardson, a jailed cocaine kingpin Sources reveal that these rivals have gone one step further by hiring a hitman to track down and eliminate richardson’s key allies. The 31 year old who was described in court as a crime boss and a king pin had been the driving force behind a major dr*g operation that at the height of criminality was making more than £160k.
A crony of scots cocaine kingpin mark richardson fled an armed thug as part of an escalating turf war with a ruthless new crime gang, we can reveal. While police battle to keep a lid on the “tinderbox” which is edinburgh ’s underworld, the situation is being deliberately escalated by organised crime figures thousands of miles away.
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