Four of the five people arrested by detectives probing a double gangland murder were tonight released without charge.

A former associate of the convicted drugs dealer John Gilligan is understood to have survived an assassination attempt near Marbella in Spain.

A DECISION in an appeal brought by Dublin woman Linda Mulhall to have her 15-year sentence reduced for the manslaughter of her mother’s boyfriend, whose body was cut up and dumped, has been put off until the new year.

A CORONER yesterday said he would invite the Justice Minister to write to him regarding the admissibility of independent forensic experts at an inquest into the death of Terence Wheelock.