STV NewsA gang, which is currently embroiled in a criminal feud spanning Scotland’s central belt, has claimed responsibility after a skip lorry crashed into the living room of a home in Edinburgh.
Emergency services were called to Brand Drive, a street next to Portobello Golf Course, at around 2.25pm on Tuesday.
A video seen by STV News shows the vehicle reversing at speed, smashing through the wall at the front of the house and entering the living room.
SuppliedThe footage is overlaid with the song Go by the Chemical Brothers, which has seen a resurgence in popularity following the release of Apex on Netflix.
The movie follows Charlize Theron’s protagonist as she flees Taron Egerton’s antagonist through the Australian wilderness. The Chemical Brothers song is used by Egerton’s character to signify the beginning of the hunt.
SuppliedThe skip lorry video ends with a warning to those targeted, “Expect consequences,” and features the Tamo Junto (TMJ) logo.
Police Scotland has confirmed that detectives are keeping an open mind regarding links between the incident and the ongoing gang war.
No arrests have been made.
Operation Portaledge
TMJ is one group believed to be involved in an underworld feud which has resulted in homes, cars and businesses being firebombed, multiple assaults, shootings at homes and bounties being placed on key figures across Scotland’s central belt from Glasgow to Edinburgh.
In response to the escalation of gang violence, which involves members of the Daniels and Lyons mobs, Police Scotland launched Operation Portaledge in an effort to stamp out the organised criminal activity.
Amid the gang war, TMJ is understood to have issued a “bounty” on the head of jailed cocaine kingpin Mark Richardson, who is also believed to be connected to the war.
The drug lord was previously cleared of the attempted murder of Ross Monaghan in 2017.
Monaghan was gunned down alongside Stephen Lyons’ brother, Eddie Lyons Junior, at Monaghan’s Irish Bar in Fuengirola, south of Malaga, by a masked assailant in May 2025.
STV NewsPolice Scotland previously said the killings in Fuengirola were not linked to the feud; however, Spanish police chief Pedro Agudo Novo said a Daniels clan member was involved in the assassinations.
In September, four Scots, Steven Lyons, Ross McGill, Stephen Jamieson and Steven Larwood, were reportedly taken into custody by Dubai police as part of a large-scale investigation.
Jamieson was extradited to Scotland, where he faces a total of six charges, including directing someone to commit a serious offence.
Lyons was apprehended in Bali as part of a Spanish-led gang-busting operation. The Scottish crime boss was deported to Amsterdam where he will face a surrender hearing on June 4.
Larwood is currently being hunted in Bali after he arrived in the country alongside Lyons.
STV NewsGang members have already been jailed for their part in the feud which ignited last year.
Earlier this month, Marshall O’Hara, 21, Fraser Stewart, 22, and Aiden McLaughlin, 21, deliberately torched houses and a carpet firm linked to the Daniel crime family.
The trio were jailed for a total of 18 years for their part in the spree of firebombings in April 2025.
Last month, Owen Martin, 21, was jailed for three years after setting fire to the home of Kelly “Bo” Green.
She is one of the daughters of late crime boss Jamie Daniel, who died of cancer in 2016.
Green is also the widow of Daniel crime enforcer Kevin “Gerbil” Carroll, who was gunned down in an Asda car park in Glasgow’s Robroyston in 2010.
Martin pleaded guilty to wilful fire raising to the danger of the lives of Kelly Green, her 21-year-old son, his friend and three children.
The special task force has arrested a total of 63 people in connection with the organised crime war.
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