Gardai believe that associates of a Dublin man who survived two recent assassination attempts have taken out a €30,000 contract on the mobster they blame for the latest botched hit.
The Sunday World can reveal that the contract has been taken out on the life of a senior member of the Christy Kinahan mob, who they believe helped lure Michael Frazier to a pub car park to be murdered.
The man, who is a well-known player in Dublin gangland, fled to Spain after learning about the bounty on his head.
Frazier has told pals that the man, who is in his 40s, was the one who phoned and arranged a meeting in the car park of a pub in Firhouse.
When Frazier arrived at the meting point, a masked hitman came out of the shadows and pointed a gun at his head and pressed the trigger three times only for it not to fire.
The incident was caught on CCTV and the gun only failed to fire because the dim-witted shooter had forgot to put a bullet in the chamber, allowing Frazier to make his escape to nearby Tallaght garda station and report the attempted murder.
The Sunday World exclusively revealed last week that Frazier has surrounded himself with members of the Brian Rattigan gang, because he suspects that his old friends in the Freddie Thompson gang want him dead.
And now Frazier has hit back and has been offering the money to known hitmen in a bid to have the criminal whacked.
He is one of the Kinahan gang’s right-hand men in Dublin and has also links to the Thompson mob.
However, it is understood that the murder of Frazier was sanctioned by Kinahan after the Thompson crew sought permission for him to be taken out.
In order to get the job done, Kinahan told his man to phone Frazier and tell him he wanted to broker a peace deal but to betray him – but the plan did not come off.
This has left Kinahan furious because he is now involved in a dispute he is not really a part off and wanted nothing to do with.
It was the second time since March that Frazier has cheated death and he knows he is a dead man walking because he was accused of bedding the partner of a senior Thompson gangster.
Frazier realises he is extremely vulnerable after the order came from behind bars that he was to be murdered at all costs and he has been cozying up to former Rattigan associates who were involved in the infamous Crumlin/Drimnagh feud that claimed 16 lives.
Gardai now fear that the feud could reignite because of Frazier’s newfound friends.
Frazier started out in the early 2000s as being sympathetic to the Rattigan mob but moved into the Thompson camp and suffered several attacks as a result.
The Rattigan gang has effectively been defeated with most of the younger generation moving away from the feud. However, there are still a small band of loyalists led by Rattigan’s cousin Aaron Rattigan.
Gardai fear that if the increasingly desperate Frazier teams up with the remnants of the Rattigan gang then there is the potential for carnage to break out and the feud to kick-off again.
Frazier own friends turned on him on March 26 when he turned up to a pre-arranged meeting in a church car park in Clondalkin.
A masked gunman then approached from the shadows and fired three shots at him hitting him in the back and legs.
However, he was able to drive his Mini Cooper onto the kerb and managed to drive himself to Clondalkin garda station. He made a miraculous recovery and was out of hospital in just three days.
After initially refusing to believe that the Thompson gang had been responsible, Frazier realised that his own friends were behind the incident.
He put on a brave face in public and was even dancing on pub tables showing off his scars and boasting about how he was invincible.
However he knew that his falling out with the mob was permanent and they would try to come back and finish the job and has now linked up with Rattigan loyalists to save his skin.
Although he is well-known to gardai, Michael Frazier has very little in the way of criminal convictions.
