The 45-year-old Daniel mob associate was a member of Kevin ‘Gerbil’ Carroll’s notorious Alien Abduction Gang.

A key member of the Daniel crime clan has been jailed for an attack on rivals from the Lyons crime syndicate. Craig ‘Rob Roy’ Gallagher chased his victims down a street while armed with an axe.

The notorious hood, a close associate of slain gangster Kevin ‘Gerbil’ Carroll and member of his Alien Abduction Gang, targeted the individuals in question after swerving through traffic to get to them. The gangland hardman once drove himself to hospital in a blood-smeared van after being stabbed and set on fire – when he escaped the house he’d been tortured in because it exploded.

A court has heard he went on his latest rampage when he spotted Lyons associates he believed had made death threats against his son driving in a Volkswagen Golf. He swerved through traffic, jumped from the vehicle and approached them.

The incensed 45-year-old was shouting aggressively to them and some of them ran away from him down Kirkintilloch Road, near Bishopbriggs, during the September 21, 2021, incident.

The driver of the Golf had remained by the side of her car, while Gallagher shouted aggressively at her, still in possession of the axe, before he returned to his vehicle, a Toyota Hilux, and chased after them.

Gallagher pleaded guilty over the incidents during a trial at the High Court in Glasgow, and he was sentenced yesterday, Friday, April 4, 2025, at the High Court in Stirling.

Lord Harrower jailed him for two years and six months for the offences – assault whilst in possession of an axe, and being in possession of an offensive weapon in a public place. Gallagher – who has 22 previous convictions, including three for assault – will also be supervised in the community for 12 months after being released from the jail term.

Lord Harrower said: “I am satisfied not only that a custodial sentence is necessary, but that a period of supervision will be necessary in order to protect members of the public from you upon your release.

“The first part of the sentence is a period of imprisonment of 2 years 6 months. Given the lateness of your plea, I do not consider any reduction is justified.

“The second part of the sentence is a supervised release order, such that, on your release from custody, you will be under the supervision of the local authority for a period of 12 months.

“During that period after your release from custody, you will report to the supervising officer allocated to supervise you in a manner and at intervals specified by him or her.

“You will keep your supervising officer informed of your current address and you will comply with any other requirement he or she may reasonably specify.

“If you breach the order, you may be brought back to court and returned to custody for all or any part of a period equal to that between the date of your first breach of the order and the date when your supervision would expire.”

The sentence of Gallagher, of Torrance, East Dunbartonshire, was backdated to March 11 this year, when he was first remanded in custody over the offences.

The day before he committed the offences, Gallagher had appeared in the dock at Glasgow Sheriff Court after his Boxer-Pitbull cross left a woman badly hurt.

He was banned from keeping dogs after his pet latched on to Marion Penman’s elbow and leg outside his home as she visited someone who shared a communal garden with Gallagher on December 17, 2019.

Officers investigating the incident seized the animal, but Gallagher warned: “Just put the f***ing dog down then, I will buy a bigger more aggressive dog anyway.”

The court heard that an unknown thief was taken into the kennels where the pet pooch was being kept and stole it, with the prosecutor saying at the time the animal was “essentially still at large”.

Gerbil – who was gunned down by Lyons mobster William ‘Buff’ Paterson outside the Asda supermarket in Glasgow’s Robroyston area in 2010 – headed up the Daniel crew’s Alien Abduction Gang.

They targeted rival drug dealers, torturing them and stealing their guns, drugs and cash while posing as police officers to gain entry to properties.

They used guns, blowtorches and power tools in attacks and were dubbed the Alien Abduction Gang as victims said they could not remember what had happened to them.

In 2020, Gallagher was named and shamed by HMRC chiefs as a tax dodger, with it emerging he had avoided making payments of more than £35,000 through his carpet and flooring business.