DUBLIN criminal John Traynor stayed away from a court in Amsterdam as judges were asked to hand him over to the British authorities on the foot of an extradition warrant.

THE Kinahan gang operated an “international” drug and gun trafficking operation and a “global investment service” laundering “hundreds of millions” of euro for some of Europe’s biggest gangs, including his own.

THE gangland figure suspected of killing journalist Veronica Guerin has died of what are believed to be natural causes while serving a prison sentence in a British jail.

THE nephew of gangland figure Patrick ‘Dutchy’ Holland yesterday said he believed his uncle’s arrest in an alleged kidnap plot in London was a mistake.