Man in black balaclava ‘shot my daddy and walked out’

Daughters of criminal describe killing after gunman in bullet-proof vest entered kitchen

“A man came to the door wearing a black balaclava, bullet-proof vest and black gloves. He walked in the door...  He had a gun in his right hand,” a child said in her deposition read out at Dublin Coroner’s Court. File photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times

“A man came to the door wearing a black balaclava, bullet-proof vest and black gloves. He walked in the door... He had a gun in his right hand,” a child said in her deposition read out at Dublin Coroner’s Court. File photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times

The children of a criminal shot dead in his home told how a man holding a gun had entered the kitchen wearing a balaclava before shooting their father dead.

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