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Kirsty Feerick

Scots gangster Robert Kelbie now working for Tyson Fury as 'director of talent'

A Scottish gangster has revealed he is now working with world heavyweight boxing champ Tyson Fury.

Robert Kelbie, from Edinburgh, is also claiming to represent super middleweight Billy Joe Saunders as ‘director of talent’ at MTK Global.

The 36-year-old gave Fury, 32, a tour around Scotland during a whistle-stop tour last week.

Throughout the trip the Tyson and his Love Island brother Tommy stopped off in the capital, a tailors in Glasgow and had a stay in the five-star Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire.

Tyson Fury and his brother Tommy in Scotland (Daily Record)

On Instagram Kelbie now describes himself as “commercial director of talent for team Fury/Saunders”.

Both fighters are managed by the boxing super-firm MTK Global which Kelbie has also been helping to promote.

MTK Global was originally founded by Irish gangster Daniel Kinahan.

He has also become close friends with Saunders, 32.

In August last year, we told how former boxer Kelbie, who has been embroiled in a feud with cocaine baron Mark Richardson for several years, enraged locals by building a 7ft wall with electric gates around his Edinburgh property.

Robert Kelbie with Tyson Fury at the Gleneagles Hotel (Daily Record)

The compound was already fortified with spiked ­railings and CCTV.

The house was targeted by gunmen in 2013 and 2016.

In the second attack, a bullet smashed a bedroom window and another damaged a porch.

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