GARDAÍ INVESTIGATING the murder of father-of-four David Brett in north Cork yesterday arrested a 29-year-old man.
The man was being detained last night at Bandon Garda station. A number of arrests have been made in the Brett case but nobody has been charged in connection with his murder.
Mr Brett’s body was found outside Foyle National School near Ballydesmond on May 21st.
Detectives believe that he either arranged to meet someone he knew outside the national school or the meeting was arranged by someone he knew.
Gardaí believe Mr Brett (35) was under severe financial pressure from a Dublin drug supplier.
He had been involved in a major drugs gang in Cork city with his brother, John, who is serving an 11-year sentence after he was caught with more than €600,000 worth of ecstasy in 1999.
Mr Brett had also been caught drug dealing when he and another man were arrested with more than €100,000 worth of ecstasy tablets in south Cork on October 22nd, 1998. Brett was jailed for two years and released in 2003.