A Dublin man was jailed for 12 years today for falsely imprisoning a drug dealer who was murdered in a gangland killing in 1996. 29-year-old Jeremy cooper of Dunne Street, Dublin, had pleaded guilty in the Central Criminal court to the false imprisonment of Mark Dwyer at Foster Terrace, Ballybough on December 14th 1996.
Father and son, Joe and Scot Delaney, are already serving life sentences after they were convicted of Mark Dwyer's murder in separate trials in 1997 and in April of this year. Mr Dwyer was abducted and beaten to death after being blamed for the disappearance of 40,000 ecstasy tablets imported by the Delaney gang. His body was found slumped in a field in Finglas with a gunshot wound to the back of the head. Mr Justice Dermot Kinlen told Mr Cooper that he had been involved in the abduction and false imprisonment of a person who was tortured.
