David Duffy jailed for five years over attempted murder plot

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David Duffy was jailed for five years at the Special Criminal Court on 30 July 2021 for his role in a plot to murder James ‘Mago’ Gately.

Duffy admitted helping the Kinahan gang in its attempt to murder Gately, a rival Hutch gang member. The gang brought Estonian hitman Imre Arakas to Ireland to target him.

Duffy booked Arakas’s flights, sourced a car and helped clean it of fingerprints. He had SIM cards for burner phones, sourced tracker devices and was in frequent contact with the director of the operation.