Gang war erupts in Scottish jail with inmate's eye socket shattered in vicious beating

James McDonald, left, and Robert Daniel (Image: Strathclyde Police/PA Wire)

A convulsive gangland feud has erupted wrong Scottish prisons, with an inmate near with a shattered oculus socket aft 1 vicious beating.

Two salient members of the notorious Daniel transgression household were attacked wrong days of each different astatine HMP Edinburgh, besides known arsenic Saughton Prison.

James McDonald, a convicted hitman serving a beingness condemnation for the execution of Michael Lyons, was assaulted past month.

McDonald, who is serving a grounds 30-year condemnation successful transportation with the 2006 Applerow Motors shooting, was seemingly ambushed aft a quality involving the brother-in-law of a murdered gangland figure.

Shortly afterwards, Robert Daniel – lad of the precocious transgression brag Jamie Daniel – suffered a brutal assault, resulting successful a suspected fractured oculus socket.

James MacDonald was assaulted past period (Image: Strathclyde Police)

Insiders suggest respective different lower-ranking associates of the Daniel clan person besides been targeted successful a spate of situation beatings by rival factions.

One root told the Daily Record: “McDonald’s agelong been a marked antheral due to the fact that of Applerow.

"He’s faced attacks earlier and expects them to continue.

"Prison bosses person to study attacks similar this to police, truthful officers are present investigating it."

Robert Daniel is believed to person suffered a breached oculus socket (Image: Iain McLellan/Spindrift)

Both McDonald and Daniel are understood to person received aesculapian attraction wrong the situation alternatively than being taken to hospital.

A spokesperson for the Scottish Prison Service said: "We don’t remark connected individuals."

The 35-year sentences McDonald and chap assassin Raymond Anderson initially received were aboriginal reduced by 5 years connected appeal. 

Victim Michael Lyons was conscionable 21 erstwhile helium was changeable dormant successful Glasgow's Possil area. 

HMP Edinburgh - often referred to arsenic Saughton (Image: PA)

His cousin, Steven Lyons, was besides wounded successful the weapon attack, on with subordinate Robert Pickett. 

McDonald has besides been progressive successful a fig of incidents down bars. 

In 2017, helium was caught with "a ample pile" of heroin successful his situation compartment and besides headbutted a situation serviceman who had tried to interruption up a combat betwixt warring inmates. 

He was fixed different jailhouse word for those offences that year, being sentenced to 2 years and 10 months for being acrophobic successful the proviso of heroin and assault.

He was recovered with 28 wraps of the cause connected April 21, 2017, erstwhile guards were carrying a "morning check" of cells. 

A justice was told that the "prison value" of the drugs was £5,000 and that during the summertime helium attacked situation defender Stephen Myatt erstwhile helium tried to halt McDonald warring with different convicts.