Gardai investigating the murder of Gary Carey have seized a phone from crime boss Brian Rattigan as part of their probe into his associates.
Sources confirmed that officers took a mobile phone from “King Ratt” after he arrived back in Ireland via Dublin Airport last week. It is understood that Rattigan, whose associates are being probed over the gangland murder of Gary ‘The Canary’ Carey, willingly handed over his phone to gardai.
Convicted killer Rattigan, 42, has been predominantly abroad ever since his release from Portlaoise Prison in August 2021. The infamous gangster served 18 years behind bars for stabbing Declan Galvin to death in 2001 — a killing which sparked the bloody Crumlin /Drimnagh feud.
It is understood that Rattigan surprised officers when he returned to Dublin last week — and he told them he was back for business. Rattigan’s return to Dublin comes just weeks after gardai made major arrests in relation to the murder of Gary Carey.
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The arrests included the suspected triggerman and a female. Gangster Carey was ambushed by a gunman in the underground car park of the Hilton Hotel in Kilmainham and was shot multiple times shortly before midday on June 24, 2022.
He subsequently died in hospital on August 5, and gardai launched a murder investigation. Gardai believe Carey was murdered by associates of Declan ‘Dee Dee’ O’Driscoll and a west Dublin mob nicknamed “The Family”.
However, associates of Rattigan are also in the frame. Rattigan is now believed to be staying at a property not far from Dublin city centre.
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