Jailing claustrophobic Kinahan Cartel member like 'putting a man with arachnophobia in a cell with spiders'

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Jailing a claustrophobic senior Kinahan Cartel member, who directed a sub-cell in a plot to murder Patrick "Patsy" Hutch, is like putting "a man with arachnophobia in a cell with spiders", a doctor has told the Special Criminal Court.

A senior investigating officer also told the non-jury court today that the cartel's main leadership operates in the Middle East and coordinates the organisation of its various "sub-cells".