ESCAPE TO AFRICA

Gang leader McGill eyes move to Moroccan sanctuary after offer from feared Mocro Mafia. Son of 'killing machine' Taghi hatches plan to keep turf war kingpin out of Scots cops' reach

- BY JOHN-PAUL CLARK

GANGLAND kingpin Ross McGill has been offered a new life in Morocco by the infamous Mocro Mafia.

McGill, 31, was released from a Dubai hellhole jail last month after he was banged up for 12 days with Steven Lyons, 44, Stephen "Jimmy" Jamieson, 42, and Steven Larwood, 42, while they were quizzed by authorities over their connections to organised crime.

Officials booted the ex-Union Bears boss out of the United Arab Emirates and told him never to return.

An underworld source said McGill is hiding in a secret bolthole as he makes plans to relocate. The mobster is considering sanctuary in Morocco after becoming close friends with the sons of brutal Moroccan-Dutch crime boss Ridouan Taghi.

Taghi, 47, was described as "a well oiled killing machine" when he was caged for life last year over a campaign of murders and attempted murders.

The monster was a close associate of the infamous Irish Kinahan cartel, which has links to Scotland's Lyons crime clan.

McGill became pals with his sons Faissal and Adil while the gangsters were living it up in Dubai.