Man denies Belfast taxi driver murder

A Belfast man pleaded not guilty at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today to the murder of a taxi driver in Belfast in 2007.

Gerard Mackin (aged 28), a native of the Whiterock area of west Belfast, with an address at Raheen Close, Tallaght, Dublin denied the murder of Mr Edward Burns, a taxi driver and 36-year-old father of five, of Prospect Park, Belfast, at Bog Meadow, Falls Road, Belfast on March 12, 2007.