A HOOD who plotted to murder a gym boss has been slashed in jail amid claims it was ordered by a hitman who killed Kevin ‘Gerbil’ Carroll.
Neil Anderson, 49, was targeted just days after he was transferred to notorious Shotts nick, where Billy ‘Buff’ Paterson, 45, is serving a life sentence.
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Lyons gang assassin Paterson, who gunned down Daniel mob enforcer Carroll, 29, in a Glasgow car park in 2010, is said to be a powerful enforcer inside the Lanarkshire prison.
Sources told how he orchestrates revenge attacks and exercises control over other caged mobsters.
And it’s claimed the attack on Gillespie cartel crony Anderson was a message to that gang — formerly headed up by missing brothers Barry and James Gillespie, who vanished in Brazil in 2019.
A source said: “Anderson was moved to Shotts recently and within days he was on the receiving end of a slashing.
“It’s no secret Billy Paterson is top man inside Shotts and nothing happens there without his say so.
“It’s said he hands out free drugs and mobile phones to get other cons to do his dirty work on behalf of the Lyons gang.
“The attack on Anderson was to show strength and let the Gillespie mob know who are top dogs.”
Anderson got 21 years for his part in the slaying of Gary More, 32, in Airdrie in 2018.
Paterson was caged over his role in the infamous gangland assassination of Carroll, left — linked to the long-running feud between Glasgow’s feared Lyons and Daniel crews.
The Scottish Prison Service said: “We don’t comment on individual prisoners.”
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