Mother says row over bike led to son's murder

THE mother of a man murdered as he sat in a car yesterday blamed his death on a five-year-long row over a motorbike.

Mother says row over bike led to son's murder

The shooting dead of 27-year-old Noel Roche in Clontarf a month ago was believed to have been the fifth brutal killing in a bloody feud between two rival south Dublin drugs gangs. But his mother, Caroline, denied her son was a drug dealer or killer.

"Noel wasn't like that, he would not go out and shoot anyone. He wasn't into anything like that," Mrs Roche said.

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