Gangs of Edinburgh: The Somali drug gang who filled the capital’s streets with bloodshed

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It began with a high-speed chase across Edinburgh and ended with the son of a Muslim cleric being shot with a Mac-10 machine gun.The slaying of Mohammed Abdi was the bloody finale of a bitter dispute between factions of a Somali drug gang operating in Scotland, spreading fear in normally quiet streets and edging out the big players in Edinburgh’s underworld.The thugs had descended on the city to ply their lucrative trade, taking in a reputed £15,000 a week from peddling crack cocaine and other narcotics.The gang’s members lived the high life on the profits, splashing out £100 a time on bottles of expensive vodka and cognac in Edinburgh nightclubs.They had access to firearms such as the deadly Mac-10, with its ability to fire more than 1000