Veronica Guerin was
a crime reporter, she had been assassinated by the drug lords. It was
the most horrifying mafia crime in Ireland, triggered on media and
public person. She was 37 years-old, she died on 26th of
June 1996.
She
wrote about crimes, about the Irish Republican Army. She started
writing about the drug dillers for Sunday Independent, she wanted to
uncover John Traynor. He gave her warning and numbers of threats,
death threats, included. While writing about the crime kingpin Martin
Cahill – she was given a serious thereat, the shots were triggered
onto her house. She ignored it. In 1995, she was shot in the leg,
lucky the bullet missed her head, where primarly it was set upon.
Still, Guerin wrote about drug dillers and fought for an independent
Irish press.
Sep
1995 – Guerin was attacked by John Gilligan. He had severely beaten
her. He also threaten her He would kindnap and rape her son, Guerin
herself will be murdered. She took the threats for granted, however,
she didn't stop the investigative journalism.
On
June 25th, 1996 Guerin was driving along the motorway,
Dublin, near the Newlands Cross. She stopped her Opel Calibra at the
traffic lights. Within this short space of time she was shor six
times by one of the two men sitting on a motorcycle. The
investigation lasted years, the breakthrough came from Amsterdam,
where John Gilligan was caught and extradicted to Ireland in 2000.
Brian Meehan and John Traynor fled to Amsterdam,
Meehan was found and captured due to joined UK
SOCA/Regiokorpsen
operation in 2010. Traynor lives in Kent since 2013.
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