Gangster John Gilligan has been ordered to stand trial later today in Spain on drugs and weapons charges.
The convicted drug dealer, prosecuted but acquitted over journalist Veronica Guerin’s murder, was warned he faces more than eight years in jail if convicted.
State prosecutors demanded an 18-month prison sentence for unlawful weapons possession. It came after a type of gun Spanish police linked to the Irish crime reporter’s 1996 assassination was found hidden in the garden of Gilligan’s Costa Blanca home.
