Ruthless crime boss Cornelius Price paid over €100,000 for hitman Robbie Lawlor to be assassinated in retaliation for the murder of teenager Keane Mulready Wood, Gardai believe.
It is understood that he fled Ireland to Britain weeks after his release from prison at the height of the Drogheda drugs feud in February,2020 because he was terrified Lawlor would kill him first.
Price,41, who died from a brain disease last February, used a rival crime group to hire Lawlor to carry out a hit in Belfast. The whole arrangement was made via contacts in Mountjoy Prison.
