Reward to help track down wanted men

Wanted Barry Gillespie

Crimestoppers have announced rewards totalling £25,000 for information that will help police snare five of Scotland’s most wanted men – including alleged Rutherglen drug kingpins, brothers James and Barry Gillespie.

Earlier this month, our sister paper, the Sunday Mail, told how police believe the Gillespies have built a multi-million pound fortune from flooding Scotland with drugs and guns while running the country’s biggest – and

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richest – organised crime gang.

Prices have been put on the heads of the brothers and their reputed associates Jordan Owen, James White, and Christopher Hughes.

Owen, 24, is sought over the murder of Jamie Lee in July 2017 near a play park in Castlemilk.

He is also a suspect in the slashing of criminal lawyer Joe Shields, who was attacked outside his office last July.

Crimestoppers say rewards

Wanted James Gillespie

of up to £5000 are being offered for each of the five men wanted for questioning over offences linked to serious organised crime.

European arrest warrants have been issued for all five.

James Gillespie, 45, and Barry Gillespie, 41, are wanted in connection with the abduction and attempted murder of Robert Allan in 2015, as well as directing serious organised crime across the UK and Europe.

The alleged cocaine kingpins

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have links with Spain, Tenerife and Portugal. James is also known aby the alias of James Gardener, while Barry also goes by Eamon Fitzpatrick.

White, 41, and Hughes, 30, are believed to be involved in the importation of drugs into the UK.

The Gillespies call themselves property developers.

The Sunday Mail revealed that they were implicated in the murder of Glasgow drug dealer Martin Toner in

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2004. More than 200 specialist police officers, including elite Colombian detectives, have joined the hunt to find the Gillespies.

Crimestoppers said: “When you call our UK Contact Centre on 0800 555 111 or use our anonymous online form at www. crimestoppers-uk.org, no one will ever know.

“Together we can help to protect our communities and those we care about from danger.”