Man at centre of contract killing case ordered to hand over €100,000

A man who, with his brother and father, was allegedly the subject of a contract killing has told a jury in the Central Criminal Court he was told to hand €100,000 to a woman he met in a local hotel to cancel the hit.

Clare woman Sharon Collins (aged 45), of Ballybeg House, Kildysart Road, Ennis and Essam Eid (aged 52), an Egyptian man with a Las Vegas address has pleaded not guilty to conspiring to kill P.J., Robert and Niall Howard between August 1, 2006 and September 26, 2006. Ms Collins also denies hiring Mr Eid to shoot the three men.