Witness in Limerick murder trial 'was doing hits in Ireland', court hears
One of the four men on trial for their part in the fatal shooting of a Limerick bouncer told gardaí that he had never seen a gun in his life.
Detective Garda Darragh O'Sullivan told Mr Denis Vaughan Buckley SC, prosecuting, that the accused man Gary Campion had told him that the chief prosecution witness had "killed four or 5 people in England. He came over to Ireland and was doing hits."
Campion told gardaí that James Martin Cahill, who is serving a life sentence for shooting dead Mr Brian Fitzgerald in November 2002 was a mad man.
"He's a serial killer. He should be signed away. He's involved in about five killings."
Det Gda O'Sullivan said Campion denied having any involvement in the murder and said he owned a slightly different bike to the one found burnt out in a laneway beside a garage on the night of the murder.
Campion (aged 24), of Pineview Gardens, Moyross, Limerick, John (aged 27), and Desmond, Dundon (aged 23), both from Ballinacurra Weston, Co Limerick and Clare business man Anthony Kelly (aged 50), with an address at Killrush all plead not guilty to murdering Mr Fitzgerald, in the early hours of November 29, 2002 at Brookhaven Walk, Mill Road, Corbally, Limerick.
Detective Garda Éamon O'Neill told Mr Buckley that Anthony Kelly said he had been meeting his accountant on November 28 in Limerick but had cancelled after forgetting some papers.
Kelly said he returned home to Clare and went to bed early. He had a gym in his house and worked out at about 7pm and was in bed by 9.30 or 10pm. He said he did not leave again until he went to his furniture shop the following morning to receive a delivery.
He left his shop at 1.30pm then drove to Dublin with his son and some friends to get the ferry to Holyhead.
He told gardaí the ferry sailed at 10.15pm and he returned to Clare the following day, December 2nd.
He said in Manchester he booked into the Diamond Hotel, getting the boat back at 3.15am.
Mr Buckley told the jury that the post mortem was uncontested. Mr Fitzgerald died from laceration of the brain and right lung with fractures of the skull due to bullet wounds to the head and chest.
The trial continues tomorrow before Mr Justice Charleton and the jury of twelve men at the Central Criminal Court sitting at Cloverhill when the prosecution case is expected to conclude.
