![]() Lyons was jailed in 2010 for the road rage killing of van driver Mark Fleeman, 32. "To write to the fiscals to tell them Allen didn't have anything to do with the attack on him and that he wouldn't cooperate in the prosecution, shows how seriously he treats the code of conduct." "All Lyons would say throughout the investigations into the jail attack was that he didn't know who was responsible, but that Allen wasn't involved. They refuse to cooperate with the authorities, even against their sworn enemies, and Lyons was adamant he was adhering to the code. The source said: "Omerta - or the law of silence - is a code of conduct that gangsters live by. He refused to leave his cell to go to court to give evidence, leading to a warrant being issued for his arrest.Ī source claims Lyons even wrote a letter to prosecutors, telling them he would not cooperate - and that Allen was not the man responsible. Lyons was cited as a witness in the jail attack case against Allen, but declined to cooperate. It has now been revealed that Lyons refused to pin the blame on Allen, who is serving a life sentence for stabbing a man 142 times and leaving a knife lodged in his eye socket, the Record reports. He was due to go on trial over the attack before pleading guilty to a reduced charge of punching Lyons last Thursday. READ MORE: Man 'kicked in the head' outside Shettleston pub after Old Firm game lost memory ![]() READ MORE: Brave Clydebank survivor raped in her own home while pregnant 'feels relief' as attacker jailed ![]() Prosecutors claimed 34-year-old Allen struggled with Lyons, kicked him and struck "him on his face with an unknown sharp implement to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement". Lyons, 42, refused to go to court to give evidence and wrote to prosecutors to say Allen had nothing to do with the attack on February 21, 2021. Glasgow road rage killer Paul Lyons stuck to a strict gangland code after he was attacked in jail by murderer Peter Allen.
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