Gareth Brophy pleads guilty to helping facilitate murder

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Gareth Brophy pleaded guilty to helping facilitate David Douglas’s murder at the Special Criminal Court on 13 December 2019.

The charge concerned participation in activities intended to help a criminal organisation commit the murder in Dublin on 1 July 2016. Brophy had previously faced a murder charge, but pleaded guilty to the lesser facilitation offence.

The court heard he was due to be sentenced on 13 January 2020, with all matters dealt with on that date.