THE violent shooting of Baiba Saulite was a “callous and brutal murder” which had left her two children without the “love and protection of a mother,” a coroner has said.

LIMERICK’S notorious McCarthy-Dundon gang are suspected of carrying out the murder of Latvian Baiba Saulite as a favour for the leader of a non-national gang based in Dublin, the Irish Examiner has learned from well-informed sources.