Addict given gun for delivery to Dublin drugs dealer

A LOADED handgun, fitted with a silencer, was given to an Egyptian national by a Limerick gang for delivery to a major drugs dealer in Dublin, a court heard yesterday.

Ebrihme Hassan, aged 36, with an address at Priory Lodge, Celbridge, Co Kildare, agreed to bring the gun from Limerick to Dublin to pay off a heroin debt of €1,000.

Hassan, who had initially pleaded not guilty to charges of having a Sphynx semi-automatic pistol and six rounds of .38mm bullets, yesterday changed his plea to guilty at Limerick Circuit Court.