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Charles McClean (35) of St Mark’s Grove, Clondalkin, Dublin 22 was arraigned before the Central Criminal Court last week, when he had been due to go on trial…

Charles McClean (35) of St Mark’s Grove, Clondalkin, Dublin 22 was arraigned before the Central Criminal Court last week, when he had been due to go on trial…

Charles McClean (35) of St Mark’s Grove, Clondalkin, Dublin 22 was arraigned before the Central Criminal Court last week, when he had been due to go on trial…

Charles McClean (35) of St Mark’s Grove, Clondalkin, Dublin 22 was arraigned before the Central Criminal Court last week, when he had been due to go ...

Charles McClean (35) of St Mark’s Grove, Clondalkin, Dublin 22 was arraigned before the Central Criminal Court last week, when he had been due to go on trial…

A "remorseless" criminal who called Mark 'Guinea Pig' Desmond to a drugs meeting in a Dublin park, where the gangland figure was gunned down, will now serve a global jail term of 20 years for his involvement in this and other gangland shootings.

Charles McClean (35) of St Mark’s Grove, Clondalkin, Dublin 22 was arraigned before the Central Criminal Court last week, when he had been due to go on trial for the murder of 41-year-old Mr Desmond.

A criminal admitted that he called his "associate" Mark 'Guinea Pig' Desmond to a drugs meeting in a Dublin park where the gangland figure was gunned down, the Central Criminal Court was told yesterday.

A double-crossing criminal has become one of the only people to be convicted in relation to three separate gangland shootings.

Mr Desmond, who was 41 when he died after being shot at least three times with a handgun, had links to dissident republicans and the drug trade in west Dublin.