Ex-cop: Daniel ahead of us

A retired police detective has admitted in a TV documentary that crime boss Jamie Daniel was almost untouchable.

The Torture King: Britain’s Worst Gangster tel ls how Daniel, of Glasgow’s Possil, became one of the country’s most feared criminals. The show also claims he used contacts with a Scottish Asian family to ship large quantities of heroin from Pakistan into Scotland. Former detective inspector David Moran said Daniel “had the reputation of being one or two steps ahead of the police and pretty much untouchable”. Daniel died from cancer in 2016 and Moran retired the next year.

The show suggests the Daniel family made £16million a year from trafficking before his death.

The programme features the crime boss’s feud with the Lyons family, which began in 2001 after £20,000 of cocaine was stolen from a Daniel safe house.

There is also a reconstruction of the murder of Daniel enforcer Kevin “Gerbil” Carroll, who was shot dead in 2010 in an Asda car park in Robroyston, near Glasgow.

Moran also reveals how Carroll would shave off all his body hair before carrying out shootings to avoid leaving DNA behind and soaked himself in diesel to wash off gun residue.

Moran claims the Lyons gang knew where Carroll, 29, would be on the day he was murdered thanks to confidential information leaked from the police computer.

The documentary was due to be broadcast last year but was postponed amid fears it would prejudice a High Court trial of six men accused of attempting to murder Steven “Bonzo” Daniel.

It will be broadcast on Channel 5 on Tuesday at 10.35pm.