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A YOUTH was forced by gang bosses to shoot a friend he had known ‘since they were in nappies’, leaving him blind and disabled. Patrick McCann, 20, and Luke Wilson, 19, met at a secluded area of the grounds of a GAA club about a firearm. Mr Wilson noticed McCann was quite jumpy as he rooted around in bushes at Liffey Gaels, Inchicore, so he walked back to a footbridge, when McCann took out a gun. One shot hit Mr Wilson in the neck and he fell to the ground and then McCann shot him in the right arm. He then stood over Wilson and fired another shot at his head, which destroyed his eye. Mr Wilson said McCann went to shoot him again, but he heard the gun jam. McCann then ran off but had dropped his mobile, and Mr
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Wilson used it to dial 999, before he was found by a jogger. He initially did not name McCann as the person who had tried to kill him, and would not give a victim impact statement. The court heard Wilson now has associated cerebral stroke, palsy in his right arm, permanent scars, damage to verte-
‘Gangsters can’t prey on weak’ brae and may require further surgery. McCann, of Decies Road, Ballyfermot, who has convictions for drug dealing and burglary, initially denied he was involved but pleaded guilty to attempted murder at the Cen-
tral Criminal Court. The court heard McCann was threatened he would be shot if he did not shoot Mr Wilson. Sentencing, Justice Paul Carney said the case ‘might as well have appeared in the Love/Hate script’. He added: ‘It is not going to go out from here that figures in gangland can have an assassination carried out by preying on somebody vulnerable in the expectation that if the enterprise fails there will be great leniency extended on account of that person’s vulnerability.’ Justice Carney handed down a 20-year sentence and suspended the final three years. He said McCann’s background of dependence on drink and drugs since the age of 12 and that he came from a dysfunctional family afforded little or no defence.
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