Gunman ‘cased’ house before hit and then lay in wait for victim

EDWARD CUMMINS’S brutal and callous murder bore all the hallmarks of a “professional” gangland hit.

The rented house at 110 Old Court in the quiet Greenfields Estate just off the Ballincollig bypass, where the young plasterer and father of one was staying with his partner Michelle Cunningham and their infant son, may have been ‘cased’ the night before the shooting, Ms Cunningham believes. She noticed a man walk by outside and pause to light a cigarette and make a call on a mobile phone.

At about 9.30pm the next day, Saturday, August 13, 2005, a group of teenagers noticed a Red Honda Accord, carrying two men, sweep at speed into the Fernwalk cul-de-sac, opposite Ms Cunningham’s four-bedroomed, semi-detached house.