Andrew Carey at Special Criminal Court, CCJ, Dublin
CONVICTED killer, Anthony ‘Noddy’ McCarthy has told the trial of two men charged with the murder of Roy Collins that he heard Wayne Dundon tell the gun man to “go down and kill Roy Collins.”
Convicted of the murder of gang boss Kieran Keane in 2003, Anthony McCarthy has been serving life in prison since December of the same year and during that time, 36-year-old murder accused Wayne Dundon along with brothers Dessie and John were also in the Wheatfield jail.
McCarthy explained his daily routine in prison and how he met with the Dundon’s regularly.
Dundon and his 24-year-old co-accused Nathan Killeen deny any involvement in the murder of Roy Collins on April 9, 2009. This Wednesday, 32-year-old ‘Noddy’ McCarthy, a first cousin of the Dundon family, said he heard Wayne Dundon on the morning of the murder shouting on the phone in Wheatfield Prison.
“He said, ‘you better do this – you never do anything for us. You better do this or you and your mother will be sorry’ and then he hung up. He was hyper and when Wayne gets hyper it’s hard to understand him because he just goes off”, explained McCarthy.
Asked who he was shouting at, McCarthy said that Dundon told him he ordered James Dillion to carry out the shooting.
“He told me that he ordered James Dillion to go kill Roy Collins and said to Dessie ‘that fucking muppet Gareth Collins wouldn’t drive the car either'”.
McCarthy said that he returned to his cell and tried to think of ways of stopping the murder by alerting a family member to warn Steve Collins or to try and talk to Dessie Dundon to call it off.
He said he was conscious of “public outcry, just like after the murder of Shane Geoghegan”.
When he asked Dundon later that day, McCarthy said he heard Dundon speak to his fellow criminal brother Dessie in the prison hallway in the wake of the murder saying that “Steve Collins didn’t believe me” before turning to McCarthy saying “as for being shot in the leg, he’s dead.
In his evidence that lasted less than 15 minutes, Noddy McCarthy said that he wrote a letter to gardai in 2011 outlining what he knew of the murder but did not name anybody and instead used letters to identify persons involved.
Dressed in a white check shirt, black puffa jacket and black combat pants, McCarthy looked over in the direction of Dundon and Killeen when he was brought into the high security court room.
Dundon grinned and laughed to Killeen at Anthony McCarthy as the three first met for the first time in the Criminal Courts of Justice buildings in Dublin this Wednesday.
