Gilligan gets 24hr protection over gang death threat fears: Former leader of Ireland's biggest drugs gang is in danger after causing security clampdown in jail.
John Gilligan, the Dublin criminal, one of whose gang murdered Veronica Guerin, is receiving 24-hour protection inside Ireland's top-security Portlaoise prison, to safeguard him from other prisoners.
Gilligan, who was acquitted of Guerin's murder, has been put in temporary segregation from other inmates over fears he could be murdered in jail, The Observer has learnt. The former leader of Ireland's biggest drugs gang has been accused of causing a security clampdown on contraband after he was caught this week with a mobile phone, two sim cards and a syringe for injecting himself with muscle-building steroids.
They are also angry that his recent interview in Irish pop magazine Hot Press via a mobile phone and the discovery of another phone in his cell contributed to the clampdown, security sources said.
Read more at Independent ("
An overdue dose of reality on pay"), Belfast Telegraph ("
Drug baron is an animal, says Veronica Guerin's brother") and Hot Press ("
The true story of the John Gilligan gang").
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