Murdered Dublin RIRA leader Alan Ryan agreed to arrange the assassination of slain drug dealer Micka Kelly for a staggering €150k, underworld sources claim.
It is understood that Ryan agreed to be paid in three instalments after a meeting was arranged with a major drug dealer who wanted Kelly taken out for good.
A female go-between set up the meeting between Ryan and the criminal, who was a very close associate of Sean Dunne, the drug dealer who disappeared in Spain in 2004.
Ryan had intended paying 50 per cent of his windfall to ‘the cause’ and dividing the rest with a number of individuals who helped set up the deal.
It is understood that the man who ordered the hit is based in Co. Meath and is a major supplier of drugs and cigarettes to criminal gangs. He had been paying protection money to Ryan’s mob, but wanted Kelly taken out so he could muscle in on his patch.
Micka ‘the Panda’ Kelly was shot dead by two gunmen in September 2011 – one of whom is believed to have been Ryan himself.
Graffiti was later found scrawled on the wall of a housing estate in Baldoyle in north Dublin which read: “RIRA anti drugs. Micka Kelly drug dealer dead.”
Gardai initially thought up to eight different gangs could have been responsible as he had fallen out with so many different outfits.
His killers drove their car over his body after shooting him dead when he left his fiancée’s apartment in Clongriffen, in Co. Dublin.
The Panda, from Kilbarrack, had initially worked for the drug dealer David ‘Babyface’ Lyndsay and his sidekick Alan ‘Wacker’ Napper, but in 2008 in a notorious gangland double cross he arranged to get rid of the pair and a €2.8 million drugs debt he owed them.
Kelly hired the notorious assassin Eric ‘Lucky’ Wilson to help him do a job on his previous employers.
The duo were last seen in Clane, Co. Kildare, where they had gone to see a gang associate who loaned Lindsay his car. It is believed they then drove to a house in Rostrevor, Co. Down, to meet the Panda.
When Lindsay and Napper arrived at the house, Kelly and Wilson were waiting armed with a pistol, a silencer and a heavy duty electric chainsaw.
Lindsay had been told to go in alone, but took so long that Napper went in to see what the delay was. As he entered it is believed Wilson shot him, having already ended Lindsay’s life.
The pair then went to work with the chainsaw and chopped up the bodies and disposed of the body parts, which have never been discovered.
Underworld sources now say that less than three years later Alan Ryan took on the job to finish Kelly’s short reign.
The deal was done with another drug kingpin, originally from Donaghmede. A number of years ago he had survived an assassination attempt himself when he was shot in the stomach in a pub.
