Dublin man charged with murder of Robbie Lawlor
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Who is Paul Drew and why was he charged with Robbie Lawler’s murder?
41-year-old Paul Drew has been charged with the murder of Robbie Lawler after he was arrested in Liverpool and returned to Belfast this week.
During a brief hearing, a court heard that there is a guardophile with the Director of Public Prosecutions in the Republic of Ireland. In relation to the investigation, and that twelve people questioned have yet to be charged. Jonathan Gill continues to fight his extradition to the North on the same murder charge.com. It just won one second. The listeners, the viewers are waiting for you. Well, there you go now. I'm in action. Right. Okay. Because this is interesting what's happened. Yes. So a guy called Paul Drew has been charged with the murder of Robbie Lawler in Belfast this morning. Now, Drew, who is originally from I think Kildare. Well, he had an address in Talla, I think, of the very initially. Yeah, yeah.
Initially, I think he had an address in in Kildare and Monster Evan, and then later in Talla. But he was arrested some days ago in Liverpool Airport and returned by the PSNI to the north where he was questioned and I think charged initially in the station and brought to court this morning, right? Now So much activity has gone on in relation to the Robbie Lowler murder in the past year. Um as a uh defense lawyer pointed out, um Today in the court. There's A dozen suspects have been interviewed but not yet charged based on this enchro chat data. Which is what the court heard is the basis of this case against against Drew. Now, we also know that so that's twelve people have been questioned and yet to be charged.
Information we've got from this court case today also tells us that there's a file with the DPP in the Republic of Ireland down here. Murder obviously happened in Ardoyne in April of 2020. We know that Jonathan Gill is currently still fighting his extradition to the North on the same charge. We know that there's three other men before the courts in the north on somewhat lesser charge. That's five. Five and twelve. Is seventeen.
Yeah, and we know obviously Barry Young has also been brought before the courts.
What does the court hearing reveal about the Garda file and the DPP in Ireland?
That's eighteen.
Yeah. Because the reason I'm counting that up like that using my fingers is because the an early bail hearing uh made by Adrian Holland, who is the first person I think brought before the courts on serious charges relating to this Robbie Lowler murder. It was actually in his grandmother's home, the garden of his home, where Lowler was killed. But that those bail hearings heard that the PS and I believe there was twenty people involved in the murder of Robbie Lowler.
Yeah, I mean some of them would be you know, tangentially involved in terms of maybe collecting people or or things of that nature. Um obviously then there's a gunman and the people who drove who drove the gunman to the scene. And then there's what's called joint enterprise, which is certainly the allegation against Jonathan Gill. And from what we can see the allegation against uh Mr. Drew here. Yeah. Not necessarily that they were there at the scene when when Rob But that they were part in the planning and ultimately the execution of the the gangland hit. Obviously they have m have denied uh well in Gill's case he has denied it. Mr. Drew, we haven't heard from him, except to to hear he confirmed his name today.
But the PSNI made the case that he could be connected um through uh telecom evidence, which presumably means the phones. Um To the to the case and to the murder of Robbie Lawler.
Yeah, it's based on information within the Encharchat platform and CCTV inquiries as well. Now, let's remember Lawler was thirty six when he was shot dead outside a house at Aetna Drive in Ardoyne on the fourth of April twenty twenty. Two things were going on at that point. Firstly, Ireland was in COVID lockdown. And secondly, unknown to any of us at that point in time. The encro chat hack was. in its early days of being operational. So the French and Dutch police had worked out how to and we will never probably know how they worked it out, but they had managed to send a kind of a message to these Anchorchat phones, which were largely been used by the criminal networks.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Paul Drew and why was he charged with Robbie Lawler’s murder?
0:02–2:46
2
What does the court hearing reveal about the Garda file and the DPP in Ireland?
2:46–5:14
3
How is Jonathan Gill’s extradition fight connected to the Lawler case?
5:14–7:50
4
What role did the AnchorChat hack play in uncovering the murder plot?
7:50–10:27
5
Who were the other suspects and why haven’t they been charged yet?
10:27–13:24
6
How did Robbie Lawler’s murder fit into the wider gangland feuds in Belfast and Dublin?
13:24–16:12
7
What firearms and other offences is Paul Drew facing besides the murder charge?
16:12–18:43
8
When is Paul Drew’s next bail hearing and what could it mean for the case?
18:43–22:10
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