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Oct 2021
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Crime World Extra: The life and extraord...

Sunday World
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He was the notorious drug dealer who introduced heroin to his hometown of Ballymena, County Antrim.

And after a lifetime of staying one step ahead of the law 61-year-old Noel Johnston made a final and fatal mistake when he mistook PSNI officers for a hit squad he believed had come to kill him - plunging 50ft to his death from a block of flats.

Nicola Tallant is joined by journalist Hugh Jordan to discuss the life and extraordinary end of a notorious drug baron who made headlines right to the bitter end.

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