Gang member killed behind Coatbridge pub mocks rival about dead brother on TikTok

12 March 2025 , 12:12

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Gang member killed behind Coatbridge pub mocks rival about dead brother on TikTok

Ryan Chalmers, who was shot in the legs in Coatbridge, north Lanarkshire in 2014, has resurfaced online to take aim at another thug who has fled to Dubai

A gangster who was shot in a brutal revenge attack behind a pub has now taken to social media platform TikTok to taunt an underworld rival.

Ryan Chalmers, who was shot in the legs near the Horseshoe Bar in Coatbridge, north Lanarkshire back in 2014, has resurfaced online to take aim at another thug who has fled to Dubai. In a series of posts on Monday night, Mr Chalmers is heard mocking the other thug, who cannot be named for legal reasons, over the death of his brother.

In one clip, he can be heard ranting: "He started it, but I will finish it. I am p*****g on top of his brother. His brother is dead. Ha ha. What are they going to do about that? He is a pure dafty. I told him a year and a half ago I would come and punch holes in him and he did f*** all about it."

The gangster living in Dubai left Scotland after police issued him with a threat to life warning. His brother was knifed to death in Glasgow in 2022 after he was knifed four times in the chest. A profile for his TikTok account shows two faceless men. One man has his features obscured with an animated bomb while he clutches a gun-shaped ornament.

Ryan Chalmers has been making Tiktok videos ( Image: Tiktok)

In another chilling video, Mr Chalmers reveals a location where he will be eating dinner in Glasgow city centre as he tries to goad his rival to send accomplices to attack him, according to the Daily Record. He said: "Come and see me, but I guarantee I will take one of you lot with me. I am going to go and get a munch in a minute so come, so you bangers will get me. They think I am hiding from them but I don’t hide. You know where I am. I’m the middle of the city centre. Come and see me."

A third TikTok video then shows Mr Chalmers boasting about the scars on his legs from the gunshot wounds he suffered a decade ago. Then 21, he was attacked in a gangland hit two years after he was cleared of murder. He claimed he killed Christopher Bergin, 42, in self-defence in 2012 before a jury at the High Court in Glasgow later returned a not proven verdict. Mr Bergin died of a single stab wound to the stomach. 

Chalmers was blasted with a shotgun at close range near the pub in Coatbridge two years later in what officers believe was a targeted attack. The gangster has been active on Tiktok in recent years and live streamed a siege with armed cops at his home in East Kilbride last year after he got into a row with a neighbour. He was then jailed for 10 months when he admitted threatening or abusive behaviour at the house in Lyttleton on July 25.

James Turner