SNP Candidate Billy McAllister who took on the Lyons Crime Family proves his campaign against Edward Lyons was correct, Lyons guilty of serial fraud

Dear All

SNP Councillor Billy McAllister has been the foremost politician in the City of Glasgow in being prepared stand up to the organised crime families operating in the city.

As the Glasgow Labour Council of shame buried their heads in the sand, Billy McAllister was tackling the problem on behalf of the local people.

Billy McAllister’s tireless work in exposing how the Lyons crime family took over the Chirnsyde Community Initiative shows how committed he is to safer communities.

Now, a member of the Lyons crime family who worked at the Chirnsyde Community Initiative, Edward Lyons has been convicted of mortgage fraud by giving lenders fake income details.

The community centre where Lyons worked was closed down in 2006 after a successful campaign led by Billy McAllister.

This was against a campaign of fear directed at local residents.

It all came to ahead for Edward Lyons when his nephew Michael was shot dead and his son was seriously injured.

Then and only then did the Labour Council of shame act.

On the day that the Chirnsyde Centre was closed down, Steve ‘bin laden’ Purcell tried to do a ‘Jo Moore’ and bury the bad news by announcing he was gay.

Edward Lyons used self-certifying on mortgage applications in order to operate his scams; he has admitted defrauding £119,000 from Preferred Mortgages and to defrauding £140,000 from HBOS.

As well as that he used the profits from crime to help his daughter set up a talon saloon by giving her £30,000.

Now the Crown has the court that it would be seeking to recover the proceeds of Lyons' crimes by way of a confiscation order.

Director of operations, Scott Pattison, said;

"Edward Lyons failed to disclose accurate information to mortgage companies in a deliberate ploy to defraud them of money. This involved a gross abuse of trust. The Crown Office specialist National Casework Division is committed to working with other agencies to ensure that financial crime is investigated robustly and where there is sufficient evidence, that perpetrators of these crimes are prosecuted”.

Labour controlled Glasgow City Council spent years backing Edward Lyons to the hilt by funding the Chirnsyde Community Initiative and refusing to address the problem, he and others created.

Pattison added;

"We aim to ensure that crime does not pay."

It is only by electing a strong local champion like SNP Councillor Billy McAllister who is standing for Westminster in Glasgow North East that people will ensure that their voices can be heard.

Billy McAllister has spent 20 years fighting for the people in Glasgow North East while the Glasgow Labour Party betrayed them then and now.

The people of Glasgow are still waiting on Labour MP William Bain to get tough on crime; so far he has posed with Labour activists pretending to be ordinary residents using a phoney knife crime petition.

Billy McAllister is ‘tough on crime, tough on Labour’ .

Yours sincerely

George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University