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Anthony McCarthy tells trial Dundon ordered Roy Collins murder

By Orla Quinn

This report is a localnews.ie summary based on public court reporting and records; sources are listed below.

Anthony McCarthy told the Special Criminal Court that Wayne Dundon had told him he ordered Roy Collins’s murder. The proceedings were reported on 22 May 2014. Dundon and Nathan Killeen were on trial for Collins’s murder on 9 April 2009. Both denied involvement.

McCarthy said he heard Dundon shouting on a phone in Wheatfield Prison on the morning of the murder. He said Dundon then told him he had ordered James Dillion to kill Collins. McCarthy also said he wrote to gardaí in 2011 about what he knew, without naming those involved and instead using letters to identify them.

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