Brian Rattigan Jailed Until Around 2025.
Dublin criminal Brian Rattigan has been jailed for nine years for a killing that sparked the Crumlin/Drimnagh feud.
The 38 year old pleaded guilty to stabbing his former friend Declan Gavin to death more than 17 years ago.
In August 2001 a car pulled up outside the Crumlin Shopping Centre and Brian Rattigan got out with a knife.
He was high on drugs and alcohol and witnesses heard shouts of ‘Rat where is he?’ before he stabbed Declan Gavin in the heart.
20 year old Declan ran into an Abrakebabra and collapsed while a doorman locked the door on Rattigan who was trying to follow him.
A jury convicted Rattigan of murder on his second trial but that was overturned by the Supreme Court.
A guilty plea of manslaughter was accepted due to exceptional circumstances.
Rattigan – has been in jail since 2003 and this sentence along with his conviction for the sale or supply of drugs from prison – means he shouldn’t be out until around 2025.
