A female associate of slain gangster Gary Carey has been arrested on suspicion of leaking his exact location to the gang that murdered him.
The woman, who was well known to Carey, is suspected of telling associates of Derek ‘Dee Dee’ O’Driscoll of his exact whereabouts minutes before he was murdered in the car park of the Hilton Hotel in Kilmainham, Dublin 8 on June 24 last year. The woman, who is in garda custody tonight, is suspected of disclosing information about the mobster, who was known as ‘The Canary,’ telling the gang of his location in a nearby gym that day.
The woman was arrested alongside two men - who we can also reveal are the suspected shooters in the horror gangland hit. The men, who are in their 20s, are suspected of procuring the vehicles and firearms used in the hit - and of carrying out the shooting.
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Meanwhile another woman was also arrested in connection with the incident. On Monday morning, gardaí confirmed the arrest of four people in connection with the incident.
A garda spokesperson said: "Four people were arrested on the morning of Monday May 15 as part of the investigation into the fatal shooting of a man in his 30s that occurred at an underground carpark of a premises on the South Circular Road in Kilmainham, Dublin 8, on Friday 24th June 2022. Two men in their 20s and two women in their 20s and 30s are currently being detained under the provisions of Section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act 2007 in various Garda stations across Dublin city."
Carey, a native of Ballyfermot in south Dublin, had been living in Spain since he escaped a previous attempt on his life in March – and was too afraid to come home. But sources have now said he made the decision to come back to Ireland at the start of June after being assured the threat on his life had been lifted.
However he subsequently flew home after gardai suspected he was lured to his death in a carefully-laid trap. The gang used a silver Audi A4 to follow Carey to the Hilton Hotel where they hunted him down in the underground car park at around 11.30am.
He was shot six times and lost a significant amount of blood, before he was given life-saving treatment at the scene and was then rushed to hospital, where he was in intensive care for some time, before later dying. Pals of convicted criminal O’Driscoll (49) had been feuding with Carey for some time.
Carey previously survived being shot twice while sitting inside a car outside a house in Ballyfermot in November 2021 – and escaped with only minor graze injuries from a previous incident in March that year. Carey has been questioned a number of times by detectives in relation to seizures of drugs, firearms and cash.
He has also previously served 15 months in prison after pleading guilty to drug dealing at Dublin Circuit Court back in 2002.
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