Killer was a bit of craic, recalls shocked man who knew Howard only as ‘Bob’
The jobless drifter became a successful poacher and regularly produced fish and rabbits with which he inveigled his way into the homes of local families.
His peculiar lifestyle was revealed by a caller to the Gerry Ryan radio show who expressed his shock at discovering the odd but seemingly harmless man who made himself at home in the caller’s family house was a rapist and murderer.
