Gardaí seek pub customers who last saw murder victim alive

GARDAÍ investigating Dublin’s latest gangland murder are looking for customers of a Ballymun pub who were among the last people to see him alive.

The dead man was yesterday named as Charles Merriman, 26, from Constitution Hill in the Broadstone area of the north inner city. The father of a nine-year-old daughter was shot in the back of the skull with a single shotgun blast. His attackers killed him close to the location where his body was found at the side of a road in Ballymun.

The grim discovery was made by a couple of American tourists out driving with relatives who spotted Merriman's body at the entrance to a field on St Margaret's Road at around midday on Sunday.