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Gavin O'Callaghan & Darragh Berry

Robbie Lawlor associate blasts 'Mr Big' a rat and pins David 'Fred' Lynch killing on him in social media rant

A close associate of Robbie Lawlor has called out notorious criminal boss of the underworld Mr Big branding him a rat and pinning a gangland killing on him.

The online outburst is understood to have been launched in a bid to turn the young minions working for the gangland king of north Dublin against him.

In an ambitious bid to put a wedge between the top and bottom of one of the world's most deadly crime gangs, the power-player is warned that he will soon lose control of his north Dublin patch.

Sources have previously revealed to Dublin Live that the 
gangland opportunist is now the No1 target for the Garda’s Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau.

In a furious rant on social media, the associate of the now slain hitman Lawlor has claimed that the feared northside crime king, who is in his 30s, supplied the gun that murdered mobster David 'Fred' Lynch.

The 26-year-old's body was found in wasteland near apartments off Belcamp Lane in Coolock in March 2009.

The close link of Lawlor claims that 'Mr Big' supplied the gun for the killing and even offered to 'put other potential killings on a plate' if needed.

He finished by warning that the kids of Darndale, Coolock and Donaghmede would get "sick of being told what to do" and turn on Mr Big - the man who built an almost unstoppable army and introduced the north Dublin areas to gangland's top table.

Dad-of-three Robbie Lawlor, 35, was gunned down at close range outside a house in Belfast at the start of April and was pronounced dead at the scene of the bloodbath.

It is believed that he was intent on "either killing someone or hammering someone for money" when his killer struck in the north of the country.

The feared hitman was one of the prime suspects in the gruesome death of Drogheda teenager Keane Mulready-Woods, whose body was found dismembered in Dublin.

Last year, a video of Lawlor being confronted after being released from prison saw him struck in the face.

The video shows a number of men on the street confronting him before he is hit.

Lawlor then appears to throw a punch towards another man before taking a few steps back and laughing.

The camera man shouts "that's only the start of it Robbie".

Lawlor, who had 124 previous convictions, had been released from custody after being cleared of attempting to murder his ex's mother in law.

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