KILDARE: Newbridge link to major Crimecall appeal on brutal double murder

The Crimecall programme on RTE last night featured a major appeal on double murder 17 years ago in which the getaway car was stolen in Newbridge.

Gangland figure Malo Hyland (39) and innocent plumbing apprentice Anthony Campbell (20) were shot dead in a house in Finglas at 8.30am on December 12, 2006.

Hyland was asleep in an upstairs bedroom in the house in Scribblestown Park as Campbell worked on a radiator downstairs.

Mr Campbell had no criminal connections.

Speaking on Crimecall, inspector Dara Kenny of Finglas Garda station said a black Volkswagen Passat saloon car, used in the double murder, was found burnt out elsewhere in Finglas about an hour after the killings.

It had been stolen in Newbridge, Co Kildare, on November 30th, 2006. It had been stored and had false plates. 

The senior officer said told presenter Carla O'Brien that Mr  Campbell “was in the wrong place at the wrong time”. 

He added: “The trauma of these murders is still felt by so many people today. We are asking people to search their conscience and come forward with any information they have”.

Insp Kenny said:  “I believe there are people out there who were privy to conversations in which these murders were discussed or confided in by those responsible. Seventeen years on I am conscious that loyalties will have changed. Personal circumstances may have changed that will just maybe enable those people with that vital information to come forward at this stage.”

He added: “Anyone who does come forward will be treated with the utmost sensitivity and compassion”.

Anyone with information can contact the freephone 1800 40 50 60 or Freetext CRIME to 57765.