Gareth Brophy jailed for helping facilitate David Douglas murder

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Gareth Brophy was sentenced to 10 years, with the final six months suspended, at the Special Criminal Court, reported on 17 February 2020, for helping facilitate David Douglas’s murder.

Douglas was shot six times in his partner’s shop on Bridgefoot Street, Dublin 8, on 1 July 2016. The court heard that Brophy drove the gunman to and from the shooting in a stolen Mercedes.

The sentence was backdated to 18 November 2018, when Brophy went into custody. A €100 peace bond was ordered for three years after his release, and he was required to enter a vocational course while imprisoned.