Rapper's rhyme scenes behind bars

A GANG member awaiting sentencing has launched a new rap track from behind bars, raising questions about when and where his part in the music video was recorded.

- BY NICOLA DONNELLY

Dean Thornton, who has been in custody for the past 12 months, features on the new rap Losses And Wins, released on Dearfxch TV on YouTube on New Year's Day.

The track also includes vocals from another local artist known as "Jaffa".

Thornton is due to be sentenced next month after admitting to facilitating the Drogheda-based Boylan Organised Crime Group headed by two brothers, Keith and Josh Boylan.

The siblings, who are on the run in Dubai and Thailand, were named in court last year by a Garda witness in a money laundering sentencing hearing.

Thornton, 27, of Moneymore, Drogheda, Co Louth, pleaded guilty last November to offences under Section 72 for enhancing the ability of a criminal organisation to commit serious crime, as well as handling criminal cash.