Gangland pals of slain hitman out for blood
Adrian ‘Aidy’ Holland has been warned that pals of notorious Dublin hitman Robbie Lawlor, who was shot dead outside the north Belfast man’s home in April, are gunning for him.
The same gang carried out the revenge murder of Crossan at his mother’s home in the west of the city last weekend.
Shot Crossan’s pal flees to Spain in fear he’s next
A CLOSE criminal cohort of murder drug dealer Warren Crossan has fled Ireland. The Sunday World understands Adrian ‘Aidy’ Holland (pictured above) who is in his late twenties, left the country on Saturday night July 4th 2020. Fearing he will be the next target of the Dublin-based crime gang who murdered Crossan last Saturday morning. Crossan was shot dead in the St James’s area of West Belfast as he visited his mother. He was shot six times in the face by two gunmen who were acting in revenge for his involvement in the murder of Robbie Lawlor who was gunned down outside Adrian Holland’s home in Etna Drive in Ardoyne in April. Crossan lured the Dublin-based hitman to his death on the promise of collecting a car. On Saturday night Mr Holland fled the country fearing it was only a matter of time before he would suffer the same fate. The Sunday World understands he has fled to Spain where he has other criminal associates. We can also reveal that Crossan’s dissident criminal gang are not planning any form of retaliation, terrified of the capabilities of Lawlor’s gang who are hell-bent on revenge for his murder.
PUNISHMENT
“Deep down Warren knew it was coming, he should have known that he would pay for what he did. In that world you don’t walk away without punishment. We all knew it was only a matter of time before he was taken out by the boys in Dublin,,” said one associate.
Crossan was facing trial in connection with a plot to smuggle £180,000 worth of cocaine across the border, concealed inside the door panels of a van stopped on the A1 at Sprucefield in November last year.
“Warren was a drug dealer, he was hardly Pablo Escobar. He thought he was something much bigger than he was but in reality he wasn’t he was a small fish in a massive, deadly pond and he got eaten up and spat out. He was out of his league, he f***ked up agreeing to get involved in that feud. He might as well have put a bullet in his own head the second he agreed to that,” another associate told the Sunday World. We can also reveal Warren Crossan begged for his life when he came face to face with his killers. Like his dissident terror chief father Tommy, he died in a hail of bullets, paying the ultimate price for his life of crime. CIRA boss Tommy Crossan was shot dead on Belfast’s Springfield Road in April 2014.
With many thanks to the: Sunday World and Paula Mackin for the EXCLUSIVE original story and also the Belfast Telegraph for their contribution to the story.
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