A man walked free from court yesterday after the State’s legal team dropped a murder charge against him.

A man who was shot dead on a country lane was worried about men hanging out near his home, a witness at a murder trial told the Central Criminal Court yesterday.

Dublin “assassins” murdered a man living alone in a country lane because he found a €30,000 stash of drugs belonging to a criminal gang, a prosecution barrister said at the Central Criminal Court today.