Officers probe drugs gang link in hunt for ex-garda’s killers

Gardaí were continuing a painstaking examination of the house and grounds of murdered ex-garda John Keirns in a forensic hunt for traces of his killers yesterday.

As a complex picture continued to build of the separated father of three’s criminal entanglements, officers leading the investigation met to try to narrow down the list of suspects.

Members of a drugs gang with whom he associated are thought most likely to have wanted the former fraud squad detective dead because of concerns that he might inform on them.