Man may have been killed for refusing to carry drug money

POLICE in Portugal are investigating whether a Cork drug dealer was murdered after he refused to deliver money to pay for a drug consignment.

It emerged yesterday that Michael ‘Danser’ Ahern, 38, was part of an Irish gang in the Algarve which was apparently trying to purchase a large quantity of cocaine from Spain.

Ahern was found dead in a large fridge in an apartment in the resort town of Albufeira last Friday. He had been badly beaten and shot a number of times in the head.