Gang killers ‘aren’t untouchable’

THE conviction of a hitman for a gangland murder this week sent out a clear message to criminals that they were not untouchable, the Minister for Justice said yesterday.

Michael McDowell also said the gardaí were succeeding in the fight against gangland crime.

He was responding to the murder of two men in a gangland feud on Sunday and the conviction on Monday of a man for the execution of Limerick doorman Brian Fitzgerald in November, 2002.