Gardaí brace for battles between INLA and gang

GARDAÍ are bracing themselves for a renewal of a violent feud between the INLA and a criminal gang with the imminent release of two INLA men involved in a gruesome battle against the Dublin gang three years ago.

The two were given jail sentences following a bloody fight in Ballymount Industrial Estate, Walkinstown, Dublin, in October 1999, in which 22-year-old INLA man Patrick Campbell was murdered by the drugs gang.

The men, John Creed and Denis Thompson, were part of an INLA group, including Campbell, that falsely imprisoned, stripped and beat members of a south Dublin gang.