Latest charges against Gerard Mackin dropped

A man whose trial for the murder of a Belfast taxi driver collapsed in 2011 will not be tried with demanding money with menaces on behalf of the INLA in Co Monaghan last year after the charges were dropped.

Ms Tara Burns BL this morning told the Special Criminal Court that the State wished to enter a “Nolle Prosequi”, in other words not proceed with the trial of Gerard Mackin (aged 30) and his co-accused Declan Murray (aged 39).