No probe into Ryan cocaine suppliers - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie

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No probe into Ryan cocaine suppliers - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie: "AMID a welter of concern about the prevalence of drug abuse in Irish society, gardai are not investigating the question of who supplied cocaine to the late Gerry Ryan.
The latest drugs-related high-profile death highlights the corrosive effect of organised crime across the social divide.
An inquest on Friday heard that Mr Ryan died of arrythmia triggered by his use of cocaine with alcohol. A verdict of death by misadventure was recorded.
While no investigation will now take place, gardai believe that Mr Ryan was supplied with cocaine by a gang controlled by the notorious criminal, 'Fat' Freddie Thompson.
Thompson's gang supplies the bulk of cocaine in the city centre club and pub scene.
A garda source said that Mr Ryan's cocaine supply came from a personal contact operating at second or third hand from the criminals and that Mr Ryan 'would have paid over the odds and that may contributed to his debts'.
Journalist Joe Jackson says in today's Sunday Independent that not only did he discuss Mr Ryan's drug taking with him, but he was present a number of years ago when Mr Ryan was called to meet a dealer in the toilet of a city centre club. Mr Jackson says that the dealer was a well known supplier of drugs to personalities in the media and music industries."

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