Plumber had arms up when he was shot, inquest hears

INNOCENT plumber Anthony Campbell, who was gunned down while at work in a north Dublin house, had both arms raised in a defensive posture when he was murdered, the findings of a postmortem suggest.

Mr Campbell, aged 20, from St Michan’s House, Smithfield, was working on radiators at the home of crime boss Martin “Marlo” Hyland at Scribblestown Park, Finglas. Gunmen entered the house and shot him as well as Hyland, who was in bed upstairs.

Hyland, who had been staying with his niece and her partner for three months, was concerned about threats to his life at the time, was refusing to answer the door and had a Samurai sword with him wherever he was in the house, an inquest into the double murders at Dublin County Coroner’s Court heard yesterday.