Lusk shooting: Information sought on NI-registered VW Golf

Gardaí are calling for information on a white Volkswagen Golf with a Northern Irish registration plate which was seen in the hours before a 36-year-old man was shot at a housing estate in Lusk on Tuesday.

Christopher Maguire, who remains in a critical condition, was shot in the head and twice in the upper body in a gangland attack at about 9.35am on Tuesday at Dun Emer Place in Lusk, Co Dublin.

Gardaí have now called for information on the movements of a white Volkswagen Golf with the Northern Irish registration number XFZ 9316 in the days and hours before 10am on Tuesday, July 5th.

They are particularly calling for information on sightings of this car in the areas of Dun Emer Estate and Kilhedge Lane in Lusk, Co Dublin.

White VW Golf

It is believed at least two people were involved in the shooting and that they escaped in the white VW Golf, which was seen by witnesses leaving the area. The car was found burnt out at Kilhedge Lane not far from the crime scene a short time after the attack.

Supt Noel Carolan thanked the public on Friday for their assistance in the investigation so far and said “several hundred separate lines of inquiry” were being followed by gardaí.

Gardaí are trying to establish whether the attack on the victim in the housing estate was part of the Kinahan-Hutch gangland feud.

That feud has been linked to nine murders since the first fatality, in Spain, last September.

The man shot and wounded in Lusk is allegedly linked to the INLA.

Gardaí believe the 37-year-old had been placed under surveillance by those who shot him and that they had had information about his movements.