Gareth Brophy returned for murder trial at Special Criminal Court

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Gareth Brophy was returned for trial on a murder charge at the Special Criminal Court on 14 January 2019. The charge concerns the shooting of David Douglas at a shop on Bridgefoot Street, Dublin 8, on 1 July 2016.

The three-judge court granted the Director of Public Prosecutions' application for the trial to take place there. Brophy had been charged at Dublin District Court the previous November.