Nine members of a major crime gang have been jailed for a total of 87 years.

It follows a wide-ranging investigation into violence, drugs, firearms and dirty money.

The gang includes cocaine baron Mark Richardson and army veteran turned gun-runner Martyn Fitzsimmons.

Prosecutors took the men to court over 28 charges including the shooting of underworld figure Ross Monaghan outside a Glasgow primary school in January last year.

Other charges included the attempted murder of gangland boss Robert Kelbie and allegations of £1.5m of hidden "criminal" cash.

The gangsters were originally due to stand trial in a case that was expected to last around three months.

However, following a series of pre-trial hearings amid heightened security at the High Court in Glasgow, the gang members pleaded guilty to a number of the charges, bringing the trial to a halt.

They were sentenced at the same court on Monday.

Richardson, 30, who had been accused to trying to kill Monaghan and Kelbie, admitted having a Glock handgun while in Baillieston.

Fitzsimmons, 37, who had also been accused of involvement in the Monaghan attack, pleaded guilty to having a Glock and ammunition as well as hiding £36,000 of dirty money.

David Sell, 50, admitted being involved in the abduction of Robert Allan, who was taken from Yorkshire to East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, before being tortured and repeatedly shot in the legs.

Anthony Woods, 44, Francis Mulligan, 41, and Michael Bowman, 30, each accepted roles in "serious organised crime".

Gerard Docherty, 42, pleaded guilty to recklessly discharging a firearm at a house while 33-year-old Steven McArdle admitted having a Glock firearm.

Barry O'Neill, 37, admitted being concerned in the supply of cocaine.

The offences took place between between 2013 and 2017.

Sentencing the men, judge Lord Beckett praised the authorities' "extraordinary ingenuity, courage and commitment" in catching the gang.

He added: "There can be no doubt police uncovered the workings of serious and organised crime."