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A MAN HAS been charged with the murder of Michael Barr, who was shot at the Sunset House pub in Dublin almost four years ago.
Christopher Slater, 36, of Carnlough Road, Goat, Dublin 7, was arrested on Monday and held at Bridewell Garda station under section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act 2007.
He was charged last night and appeared before Judge Conal Gibbons in the Dublin District Court today at 10.30am.
Slater, wearing a face mask, black T-shirt, green leg warmer, sweatpants, and dark sneakers, sat silently to one side of the courtroom.
The evidence was provided by Garda Detective David Chapman, who said he arrested Slater for the murder of Michael Barr.
The defendant “did not respond” when he was warned and charged, and he was served with a true copy of the charge, the detective told the court.
Judge Gibbons agreed to Detective Garda Chapman’s request to place Slater in custody to appear in Cloverhill District Court on Tuesday.
Defense attorney Eoghan O’Sullivan said he had no questions for the garda, adding that his client will appear via video link at his next hearing.
He asked the court to recommend that his client be held at Mountjoy Prison, but the judge said that was a matter for the Prison Service to decide.
An application for bail in a murder case can only be made in Superior Court.
Legal assistance was granted after the judge noted that Slater was receiving no income.
Slater has not yet indicated how he will plead. The prosecution must prepare an evidence book.
Michael Barr, 35, of Co Tyrone, was fatally shot on April 25, 2016.
He was shot at the Sunset House pub, on Summerhill Parade, in the north city center, where he worked as a manager.
The father of five was shot seven times, five times in the head, and became the seventh victim in the Hutch-Kinahan dispute.
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Two other men, David Hunter and Eamonn Cumberton, have already been convicted of the murder and are serving life sentences.
In 2018, contract killer Eamon Cumberton, 33, of Mountjoy Street, Dublin 7, was jailed for life after being convicted of the murder, in Special Criminal Court without a jury.
Cumberton, who had 37 prior convictions, had denied the charges.
The accomplice, David Hunter, 42, of Liverpool and previously domiciled at Du Cane Road, White City in London, was subsequently jailed for life for participating in the murder.
A third man, Martin Aylmer, was jailed for three years for helping an organized crime gang commit the murder.
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