Irish gangster Robbie Lawlor was allegedly driven to the scene of his assassination by a senior member of a well-known crime family, the High Court heard today.
A judge was also told that two people suspected of involvement in the killing in north Belfast have now left the island of Ireland.
Details emerged as one of the men charged with the murder was refused compassionate bail to visit his newborn child.
Lawlor, 36, was gunned down outside Adrian Holland s home at Etna Drive in the Ardoyne district on April 4 last year.
According to police a gunman emerged from the property and opened fire in broad daylight, shooting the underworld boss in the head and body.
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A BELFAST criminal has been jailed for conspiring to import cocaine with a murder victim suspected of involvement in the fatal shooting of Dublin hitman Robbie Lawlor.
Liam Dewar was sentenced to 26 months in prison on Friday for conspiring with Warren Crossan to import £180,000 of cocaine into Northern Ireland.
Crossan from Belfast was arrested in relation to the murder of notorious criminal Lawlor last year and was himself later shot dead in a revenge attack.
Lawlor was shot dead in Belfast last April in a hit which was believed to have been orchestrated by a criminal consortium including Northern criminals, a feuding gang in Drogheda and the north Dublin gangboss known as Mr Big.
A man charged with the murder of gangster Robbie Lawlor has been plunged into an Orwellian-style nightmare since he was wrongly advised not answer police questions, the High Court in Belfast heard today.
Counsel for Patrick Teer claimed he wanted to provide an account during interviews, but a previous legal representative cautioned him to remain silent.
Despite arguing that a change in circumstances had been established, the 45-year-old defendant was again refused bail.
Teer, of Thornberry Hill, is facing prosecution over his alleged role in the assassination of Lawlor in Ardoyne, north Belfast last year.
The underworld boss was shot dead in broad daylight on April 4 as part of a deadly drugs feud.
A Belfast man charged with the murder of Irish gangster Robbie Lawlor has been plunged into an Orwellian-style nightmare since he was wrongly advised not answer police questions, the High Court heard today.
Counsel for Patrick Teer claimed he wanted to provide an account during interviews, but a previous legal representative cautioned him to remain silent.
Despite arguing that a change in circumstances had been established, the 45-year-old defendant was again refused bail.
Teer, of Thornberry Hill, is facing prosecution over his alleged role in the assassination of Lawlor in Ardoyne, north Belfast last year.
The underworld boss was shot dead in broad daylight on April 4 as part of a deadly drugs feud.