Slain passenger begged gunman for mercy, say witnesses

AN Armagh man begged for his life to be spared as a gunman opened fire on the taxi he was sitting in early yesterday morning.

The deceased was one of two passengers in the taxi which had pulled up outside a house in Dundalk, where it is believed the gunman had been lying in wait.

He was armed with a shotgun and opened fire on the taxi, killing James Hughes, aged 35, from Crossmaglen.