Arrests are a 'positive change'

THE head of the police and security service in Ireland has spoken out about the arrest of four Scottish gangland figures in Dubai last year.

- BY BEN BORLAND

Steven Lyons, the head of the Lyons crime family, was picked up in his desert bolthole last September alongside Steven Larwood, Ross "Miami" McGill a former Rangers football ultra and a fourth man.

They were later released from prison and ordered to leave the UAE, with the whereabouts of Lyons and McGill still unknown.

The fourth man was returned to Scotland, where he appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court last month to face drugs and organised crime charges dating back to 2020.

And the move set alarm bells ringing at the headquarters of Garda Síochána in Dublin, with them on the trail of Dubai's most notorious resident - Irish cartel boss Daniel Kinahan.