Mobster John Gilligan gets out of jail two months after Spain drug raid and arrest

Irish gangster John Gilligan has been released from jail less than two months after his arrest for alleged drug and gun crimes.

The convicted drug trafficker was rescued by a Spanish judge who left him at home for Christmas after a request from his defense attorney; he was released on Monday.

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The 68-year-old man was banned from leaving Spain and ordered to sign every fortnight in court as part of his conditions of release.

It is believed that he has returned to the village near the coastal town of Torrevieja where he was arrested on October 20 to celebrate Christmas with his partner.

THUG RAID

Gilligan and his girlfriend, a British woman known only as Sharon, were among the six people detained by police.

His son Darren was also arrested, following a lengthy police investigation into a drug gang that allegedly ran the Dubliner.

Detectives said that at the time they had seized four kilos of marijuana and 15,000 powerful sleeping pills called zimovane that heroin addicts use to help them sleep and numb the pain.

The raid on Gilligan’s sunny home also led to the discovery of a rare weapon described by Spanish police as “the same make and model” that was used to murder Ms Guerin.

Irish experts have said that the pint-sized Magnum .357 found buried in the offender’s garden is not the weapon used to kill the crime reporter at traffic lights outside Dublin in June 1996, although Spanish police still has not given any response to the incident. claim (es.

Gilligan was expected to remain behind bars for at least six months and could have been in prison without charge for at least two years.

‘CONDITIONAL RELEASE’

The amount of the bond payment he made to secure his release has not been disclosed.

A judicial source indicated that the ongoing judicial investigation by an investigating judge tasked with deciding whether Gilligan and the other five suspects should be tried was almost at an end.

The insider added about Gilligan’s surprise release: “The individual’s defense attorney requested his parole on bail and the state attorney’s office did not object to the request.

“The court agreed to release this person on bail because it considers that the investigation is almost finished and less burdensome measures can be adopted for the investigated person that will also guarantee that he does not escape the action of justice.

“As a condition of his release, as well as the payment of the bail, he has been prohibited from leaving Spain, his passport has been withdrawn and he has to sign every fifteen days in court.

“The investigation against this person and five others is ongoing.”

This occurs when Veronica Guerin’s brother believes that “there is no possibility” that the weapon found in mobster John Gilligan’s garden is the one used to murder her.

Jimmy Guerin told the Irish Sun on Sunday: “There is as much chance that it is the same weapon used to kill Veronica as there is of a fat guy with a beard who comes down the chimney in two weeks and hands you a box of chocolates. It’s so unlikely and unlikely. “

Crime boss Gilligan, who was acquitted of murdering the Dublin crime reporter in 1996, was arrested at his home in Spain as part of a global drug smuggling operation in October.