Two men are due to appear before the Special Criminal Court in Dublin charged with the murder of 34-year-old Limerick business man Roy Collins almost four years ago.
Gardai made an application to the court earlier today (Wednesday) that two inmates currently serving prison sentences for other matters, be charged with the murder of Roy Collins on Friday.
Mr Collins, who was the father of two young children, was shot and fatally injured in April 2009 outside his family’s arcade business at the Roxboro Shopping Centre in Limerick.
Gardaí believe he was targeted because a member of his family had testified against a senior figure in the McCarthy-Dundon criminal gang in Limerick.
In May 2010 James Dillon (26) an unemployed, single man of no fixed abode but originally from Kennedy Park on the southside of Limerick was jailed for life for the murder of Roy Collins.
One of the men due to be charged on Friday is suspected of ordering Mr Collins’s murder while the second is believed to have been in the getaway car with James Dillon.
Last July, a loaded semi-automatic Glock pistol, believed to be the weapon used in the murder, was found at Rosbrien near where the Mercedes getaway car was found.
The Collins family, who had been under full-time Garda protection, left Limerick and moved abroad last year following threats and intimidation.
Above: The late Roy Collins.
