DPP drops three charges of attempted murder against Alan Wilson

The Director of Public Prosecutions has dropped three charges of attempted murder against alleged Kinahan Cartel member Alan Wilson over the notorious Player’s Lounge shooting after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to murder at the Special Criminal Court today.

Wilson, 42, with a last address at New Street Gardens, Dublin 8 pleaded guilty this afternoon to a fresh charge that he conspired to murder persons unknown on July 26, 2010, contrary to Section 71 of the Criminal Justice Act 2006. Prior to the plea, the trial had been hearing evidence that members of the National Surveillance Unit planted listening devices in a Nissan Primastar and Volkswagen Caddy in 2017. Retired Detective Superintendent William Johnson said that Wilson and two other men who gardai had seen using the vans were members of the Kinahan organised crime gang. He said gardai needed to monitor conversations taking place inside the van to prevent crimes that encompassed risk to the lives of others.

Wilson had pleaded not guilty to the attempted murders of Brian Masterson, Wayne Barrett and Austin Purcell at The Player’s Lounge Public House, Fairview Strand, Fairview, Dublin 3 on July 26, 2010. The prosecution will enter a “nolle prosequi”, formally dismissing that charge, on Monday.

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