Hitman Eric Wilson demanded kilo of cocaine for fee as Ireland’s most prolific gangland killer at height of rampage
DRUG-fuelled psycho Eric Wilson demanded a kilo of cocaine for his fee as Ireland’s most prolific gangland killer, a new book reveals.
The Hitmen details how Eric, brothers Keith and John, cousin Alan and nephew Luke became the country’s first family of contract assassins.
Cops believe he did not threaten Wilson with exposure, but instead tried to point to the fact that he had kept his mouth shut.
Wilson appeared to agree and a meeting was set up for Mornington beach, downstream from Drogheda at the mouth of the Boyne estuary.
Later that summer, Wilson used one of the many false passports in his possession to fly to Belfast and murder another drug trafficker, David ‘Babyface’ Lindsay, and his associate, Alan Napper, in his fifth contract slaying.
'THE PANDA'
Lindsay had been feuding with Micka ‘The Panda’ Kelly, who lured him to the North on the pretence of paying him what he owed to settle their dispute.
A subsequent PSNI search of the house revealed traces of Lindsay’s blood, but neither his nor Napper’s remains have ever been found. Disposing of bodies so that they vanished without trace became something of a forte for Eric Wilson.
He is believed to have shot and killed drug addict-turned-hitman Christy Gilroy for Eamon Dunne in 2009, to avoid Gilroy turning State’s evidence if arrested.
CHIEF SUSPECT
And he is the chief suspect in the disappearance and probable execution of a man named Alan Campbell in the south of Spain at around the same time.
In 2017, Alan and youngster Luke Wilson were jailed over a
The Hitmen – The Shocking True Story of a Family of Killers for Hire, is by Stephen Breen and Owen Conlon, bestselling authors of The Cartel.
It draws on exclusive access to wiretaps, case files and interviews with sources close to the clan.
In an unlocked shed at the back of the house, they found an M79 armour-piercing anti-tank grenade, two M75 ‘pineapple’ devices, two half-kilo slabs of PETN plastique and 180 rounds of AK-47 ammunition sitting on a shelf.