Man for Dublin court over drug dealer killing

A man in his twenties is due before Dublin District Court this morning in connection with a fatal stabbing in the capital over…

A man in his twenties is due before Dublin District Court this morning in connection with a fatal stabbing in the capital over two years ago.

The charges relate to the death of 20-year-old Declan Gavin in August 2001.

Mr Gavin, from Mourne Road, Drimnagh and described as a drug dealer by gardaí, was fatally stabbed at a bus-stop near Crumlin Shopping Centre.

Gardai say the dead man was a cocaine dealer, and responsible for importing 0.75 kg of the drug found at Pearse Street in March 2000.

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Mr Gavin was arrested after this seizure, in which gardai discovered him and two others "cutting" the cocaine with powdered glucose.

At the seizure, £500,000 worth of ecstasy tablets and up to £750,000 of cocaine were found.