How the death of Jimmy ‘Doc’ Halliday was reported in the Sunday World in Ireland. Halliday a drugs dealer in Ulster relocated to Thailand and had escaped IRA bullets. But in Thailand he got into trouble again after paying Thais to beat up an enemy in the resort city of Pattaya.
In prison he contracted the flesh eating disease necrotising faciitis and before his death he signed over his apartment and bar called ‘The Blarney Stone’ to Brian Goldie, aka Brian Goudie, a convicted Scottish fraudster who offerd to represent him legally.