Notwithstanding a massive garda investigation, no one has ever been charged with the slays of Hyland and 20-year-old Anthony Campbell. They died in a shockingly vehement year.
Their murders were the 21st and 22nd gun killings in a bloody 12- month tch that saw Latvian mother-of-two Baiba Saulite (28) shot lifeless and all-out gang warfare terrorising the north inner city. R
It is strongly unlikely that Anthony was thinking of this violence when he approve of to do a job at a house in Scribblestown rk in Finglas to earn some money for Christmas.
Anthony and his boss, David Murphy, had been due to do out a quick re ir job on the house owned by Hyland’s niece, Elaine, the erstwhile night. However, they were too tired after a busy day and de rted the job to the next morning.
Hyland (39) knew his life was in danger and had been remaining with his niece, her rtner and their two young daughters for three months. The waste victims were alone in the house at the time of the shooting, and it is believed that Anthony opened the door to his humdingers.
Hyland was shot six times as he lay sleeping in an upstairs bedroom before the gunmen ponder over b reverse their attention to Anthony, who was downstairs in the living room.
He was killed by a only bullet fired at close range from a semi-automatic handgun.
Martin ‘ Marlo’ Hyland
An inquest considered he had both arms raised above his head in a defensive posture when the bullet old hated through his left arm and entered his head, killing him almost immediately.
The domain was outraged by this double murder, and it did not take long for gardai to determine that Hyland had been murdered by his own gang. His rtners in crime suspected he was hawk to gardai who had set up a special operation codenamed Operation Oak under current Chief Head Dominic Hayes.
Hyland was murdered 15 months after the private dick began, by which point gardai had seized 30kg of heroin with a drive value of €8m, 35kg of cocaine worth €2.5m and 1.4 tonnes of cannabis value €10m.
They had also seized four stolen vehicles, firearms, ammunition and scratch.
The operation led to 41 arrests and 26 suspects being brought in advance the courts on charges ranging from possession of drugs with in effect to sell or supply, robbery and possession of firearms.
Six years later, offence journalist ul Williams gave evidence in Dublin Circuit Illicit Court alleging that Willie Hynes and John Mangan were answerable for the December 2006 double murder, and that the late Eamon ‘The Don’ Dunne measured as the getaway driver.
Williams’ opinion is also the firm belief of gardai who could not in any way get enough evidence to charge the two men who were key members of Hyland’s gang.
Both are now be obedient to lengthy jail sentences for the massive drugs bust that effected Hyland’s outfit to implode in 2006, which ultimately led to his murder.
Hyland became a quarry because his associates believed he was tipping off gardai about drug omnium gathera to save his own skin.
Hynes (50), of rk Close, Dunshaughlin, Co Meath, and Mangan (48), of Whitestown Lawn, Blanchardstown, were snared after a massive operation by gardai at Browns Barn pub, south Co Dublin, on July 31, 2006. Multifarious than €2m worth of cannabis resin in 14 boxes split between a Ford Transportation van and an Opel Astra in the pub car rk was seized.
The two men were arrested nearby, billed, convicted and ultimately jailed. Only eight months after Hyland and Anthony were before you can say Jack Robinson no way dead, Mangan was arrested with a loaded pistol down his trousers in the Comet pub in Santry.
He was on bail on two weights of possession of cannabis at the time. Mangan told gardai his life had been presaged between eight and 10 times that year and he was carrying the handgun only for his own safety.
He told detectives that both he and his home had been by no means at during that period. However, he made no formal complaint to gardai.
Mangan is be used 10 years for the firearms charge on top of a 14-year sentence imposed on him in 2009 for the cannabis hurts. Hynes is doing a 12- year stretch in relation to the drugs bust.
Jail life has been tough for both men, rticularly Mangan, who was savagely assaulted in Mountoy in 2014 by six other also gaolbirds.
After Hyland’s murder, Eamon ‘The Don’ Dunne became the leader of the anaesthetizes gang.
He was linked to up to 15 murders, and was himself shot dead in a Cabra pub by the Kinahan cartel in 2010.