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A Belfast man who got "way in over his head" when he conspired with a gangland murder victim to import £180,000 of cocaine into Belfast has been handed a 26-month sentence. Liam Dewar's co-accused Warren Crossan was gunned down in broad daylight in west Belfast in June last year after being linked in gangland circles to the murder of Dublin hitman Robbie Lawlor in Belfast several weeks earlier. Ordering Belfast man Dewar to spend half his sentence in jail and half on supervised licence conditions, Craigavon Crown Court Judge Patrick Lynch QC told the 26-year-old that a lengthy jail sentence...

A BELFAST criminal has been jailed for conspiring to import cocaine with a murder victim suspected of involvement in the fatal shooting of Dublin hitman Robbie Lawlor. Liam Dewar was sentenced to 26 months in prison on Friday for conspiring with Warren Crossan to import £180,000 of cocaine into Northern Ireland. Crossan from Belfast was arrested in relation to the murder of notorious criminal Lawlor last year and was himself later shot dead in a revenge attack. Lawlor was shot dead in Belfast last April in a hit which was believed to have been orchestrated by a criminal consortium including ...

A Belfast man has admitted conspiring with a murder victim to import £180,000 of cocaine. Liam Dewar was due to go on trial at Craigavon Crown Court next week but defence counsel Peter Coiley asked for two of the three charges to be put to the 26-year-old again on Friday. Appearing from the offices of Trevor Smyth & Co. Dewar entered guilty pleas to conspiring with murder victim Warren Crossan to import cocaine and to possession of the Class A drug with intent to supply on 8 November 2019. A further offence of simple possession of cocaine was left on the books. None of the facts were opened ...

None of the facts were opened today but previous courts have heard how Dewar, formerly from Rodney Parade, was arrested when cops stopped a van he was driving on the A1 close to Hillsborough. An initial search found nothing and the van was locked into Creighton’s Garage for the weekend while Dewar was freed on police bail. Cops couldn’t find the drugs hidden inside the van and were about to hand it back when a gang tried unsuccessfully to bust it out so suspicious detectives had another look and uncovered three kilos of cocaine worth £180,000 (€202,401) under the floor behind the dri...

A teenager who kicked a female police officer in the face at a mass beach party in north Down during the summer lockdown has had the charges against him withdrawn. The 17-year-old, who was one of four youths arrested on Bangor’s Ballyholme Beach at the end of May, is instead to meet with his victim or a police representative. More than 400 youths had gathered on the beach to drink alcohol and party in breach of social distancing guidelines and sections of the crowd attacked cops who attempted to disperse them. During the disorder a female PSNI officer was booted in the face by a 17-year-old...