Innocent Irish dad shot and killed after gunman bursts into home with shotgun

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The gunman brushed Mr Sullivan’s wife Bernadette aside before opening fire with a sawn-off shotgun.

An innocent father-of-four who was callously gunned down in his home died five years later from complications as a result of gunshot wounds, an inquest into his death heard.

Bernadette said she heard Patrick scream and the gunman pointed the gun at her and after she begged him not to shoot her he ran from the house and got into the passenger side of a black car with yellow registration plates.A neighbour, Patrick Casserly, now deceased, gave a deposition prior to his death, which was read out in court that he heard two bangs and heard a car speed away.

He said he tried to comfort Patrick and held a towel to try and compress the wound prior to the arrival of emergency services and gardai. Dr Seamus O’Dea, a senior medic at Cherry Hospital, where Mr Sullivan was moved to, had a profound brain injury, was unable to speak and was fed through a tube as a result of the gunshot wounds.

She concluded that Mr Sullivan “was a victim of a shooting who had extensive injuries to his left jaw, shoulder and neck.” A total of 133 statements were taken and a possible match to the getaway car was located burnt out a short distance away.

 

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