Retired garda detective claims ‘Dutchy’ plotted to assassinate him

A FORMER senior garda claims the late gangland criminal Patrick “Dutchy” Holland had plotted to kill him in a violent act of revenge.

Retired detective Gerry O’Carroll has revealed that he feared the armed robber and hitman, who died in a British prison last Friday, would carry out a threat to assassinate him.

Mr O’Carroll, a former head of the Garda Murder Squad, claims his life was threatened by the man believed to have fired the gun that killed investigative journalist, Veronica Guerin in 1996.