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James Dillon jailed for life after pleading guilty to murdering Roy Collins

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    #2
    Berty
    Registered Users Posts: 26,149 ✭✭✭✭Berty


    Click edit, advanced edit and work away.

    I heard this on the 6 One news and was impressed by the mandatory sentence. I heard his mother collapsed in court.

    Yeah GREAT UPBRINGING! :rolleyes:


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    bazz26
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    Hope he gets put away for a long time and gets to wake up every morning in a cell next to a guy called Bubba.


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    Berty
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    bazz26 wrote: »
    Hope he gets put away for along time and gets to wake up every morning in a cell next to a guy called Bubba.

    Nah, he'll get Sky TV in his room, budgies, mobile phones, drugs on demand and whatever else to make his stay much nicer.


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    bazz26
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    Berty wrote: »
    Nah, he'll get Sky TV in his room, budgies, mobile phones, drugs on demand and whatever else to make his stay much nicer.

    Unfortunately your probably right, our 5 star prisons are second to none.


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    Kristopherus
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    Well, where-ever he's placed, I hope he rots in it.


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    Jigga
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    I believe he got paid in heroin :rolleyes:. What about the other scumbag arrested with him hiding in the house in Weston? Think he was the getaway driver.

    Thanks Berty fixed now.


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    mike kelly
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    Jigga wrote: »
    I believe he got paid in heroin :rolleyes:. What about the other scumbag arrested with him hiding in the house in Weston? Think he was the getaway driver.

    Thanks Berty fixed now.

    I have to say I feel sorry for him though, in a way he is also a victim as people exploited him to achieve their own goal. No doubt he has being terrorised into remaining silent on this.


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    Itsdacraic
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    He has been sentenced to life in prisonment.

    Does the fact he pleaded guilty mean we won't get to hear the full details of the case and what Gardai believe happened?


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    Jigga
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    mike kelly wrote: »
    I have to say I feel sorry for him though, in a way he is also a victim as people exploited him to achieve their own goal. No doubt he has being terrorised into remaining silent on this.
    I must say I feel more sorry for the Collins' family than a junkie murderer :mad:

    What i want to know is how come his accomplice who is well-known and was arrested with him and was a key suspect in the Shange Geoghean murder has not been charged :mad:


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    me_right_one
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    Jigga wrote: »
    Surprised to see no mention of this yet, I suppose he had to plead guilty to keep his mouth shut and not implicate you know who.

    http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/Limerickman-to-be-sentenced-tomorrow.6270755.jp

    Edit: Anyone know how to change a thread title or will one of the forum mods have to do it?

    Who? You mean he got life and he wasnt really the one responsible?


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    mike kelly
    Registered Users Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭mike kelly


    Jigga wrote: »
    What i want to know is how come his accomplice who is well-known and was arrested with him and was a key suspect in the Shange Geoghean murder has not been charged :mad:

    is that the fellow you can see on the Sunday World video?


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    Jigga
    Closed Accounts Posts: 967 ✭✭✭Jigga


    mike kelly wrote: »
    is that the fellow you can see on the Sunday World video?
    I removed that last video, lets just say he was in a car crash last year ;)


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    mike kelly
    Registered Users Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭mike kelly


    Jigga wrote: »
    I removed that last video, lets just say he was in a car crash last year ;)

    ok, i did get to see it first! very curious indeed why he has not been charged. the gardai must have some reason though (I hope)


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    Kess73
    Registered Users Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭Kess73


    mike kelly wrote: »
    I have to say I feel sorry for him though, in a way he is also a victim as people exploited him to achieve their own goal. No doubt he has being terrorised into remaining silent on this.


    I have no sympathy at all for him or his family. His family were quick to try and ruin the plaque for Roy Collins by drilling a cheap one of their own underneath it. Their bleating about how their poor misguided son is a victim sickened me. No your son is now a confessed murderer to whom a life
    was something that he would accept payment to take.

    I would not be surprised if there was some kind of pay off for keeping his mouth shut as well.

    He is still alive for his family to visit and he will be able to walk few someday.

    Same cannot be said for Roy Collins or for the family that can never see Roy Collins again. Roy and his family/close friends are the only victims in this case


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    mike kelly
    Registered Users Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭mike kelly


    Kess73 wrote: »
    I have no sympathy at all for him or his family. His family were quick to try and ruin the plaque for Roy Collins by drilling a cheap one of their own underneath it. Their bleating about how their poor misguided son is a victim sickened me. No your son is now a confessed murderer to whom a life
    was something that he would accept payment to take.

    I would not be surprised if there was some kind of pay off for keeping his mouth shut as well.

    He is still alive for his family to visit and he will be able to walk few someday.

    Same cannot be said for Roy Collins or for the family that can never see Roy Collins again. Roy and his family/close friends are the only victims in this case

    thanks, I didn't know that about the plaque


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    Jigga
    Closed Accounts Posts: 967 ✭✭✭Jigga


    mike kelly wrote: »
    ok, i did get to see it first! very curious indeed why he has not been charged. the gardai must have some reason though (I hope)
    From the Examiner
    At around noon, James Dillon and another man were seen arriving at the shopping centre in a black Mercedes which had been stolen in Dublin ten days previous.

    Dillon walked into the amusement arcade with a handgun and shot Roy Collins once in the front of the body at close range.

    He then jumped back into the Mercedes which fled the scene at speed, crashing four times in the process. The two men abandoned the car, which was later found burnt out, and made their way on foot to Crecora Avenue in the south of the city.

    In the meantime, Gardaí had driven to the estate, and spotted the two men who immediately ran from them.

    After obtaining a search warrant, Gardaí entered the house that Dillon had escaped into, and found him hiding under bunk-beds in an upstairs bedroom.

    He accompanied him there, was seen with him run into the house, was hiding there with Dillon and wasn't charged. Can't get my head around it.

    This scumbag boasted about being the getaway driver in that video they put up on youtube last year


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    mike kelly
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    fair play to that fellow for giving him a beating anyway


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    Duff Man Jr.
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    Anyone have a picture of James Dillon? A pure scumbag with the same name came into my class in second year for a short while before he was kicked out. 24 would put him at the right age.


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    Sierra Oscar
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    Duff Man Jr. wrote: »
    Anyone have a picture of James Dillon? A pure scumbag with the same name came into my class in second year for a short while before he was kicked out. 24 would put him at the right age.

    BreakingNews.ie has one - http://breakingnews.ie/ireland/dillon-handed-life-sentence-for-murder-of-inspiration-collins-456442.html


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    Duff Man Jr.
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    Sierra Oscar wrote: »
    BreakingNews.ie has one - http://breakingnews.ie/ireland/dillon-handed-life-sentence-for-murder-of-inspiration-collins-456442.html

    Thanks, pretty sure its him. No stories just a knacker. I can now say I went to school with a convicted murderer.


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    Jigga
    Closed Accounts Posts: 967 ✭✭✭Jigga


    Jigga wrote: »

    He accompanied him there, was seen with him run into the house, was hiding there with Dillon and wasn't charged. Can't get my head around it.

    This scumbag boasted about being the getaway driver in that video they put up on youtube last year

    According to the irish Independent today:
    "Net closes on accomplice who drove murderer's getaway car"

    http://www.independent.ie/national-n...r-2166604.html

    Lets hope they get a conviction for this scumbag


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    #23
    gaf1983
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    Steve Collins' victim impact statement is pretty heartbreaking. Have no sympathy whatsoever for that Dillon murdering scumbag. Hope his accomplice follows him.
    HOW can I put in to words the impact that the loss of our beloved son, Roy, has had on our family, a devastating numb feeling that I know will be with us until the day we meet our maker.

    Roy was a hard-working man, a productive member of society just putting the finishing touches to his dream home, a house he built himself on the lake in Killaloe, security for his children looking forward to a bright future together. Now, every day, we have to look at Roy's two beautiful daughters lost in confusion as to where their daddy has gone, their little hearts broken beyond repair, too young to understand, too afraid to contemplate what's gone on and why. To Roy they were his life, they meant everything to him, he was a wonderful father to them and they have been left to go on into life without him and I know they will miss him every day.

    I look at Roy's mother, every day the grief etched on her face, a heartbroken shell of her former self. We try to comfort each other to keep strong for our other children, who just can't believe this has happened to us. No parents should have to bury their children, it's not natural.

    Roy's brother's and sister's lives changed on that terrible day. They now live a life of fear, always looking over their shoulder, terrified of what could happen to them, and all because we did the right thing, we did our 'civic duty' and paid the ultimate price. Evil came into our lives on that faithful day and took the love of our lives in a callous act, a cowardly act, an unforgiveable act, a total waste of a good life.

    The impact this has had on a nation is of disbelief, a sense of vulnerability and heartbreak for everyone when they look into their own child's eyes and think: 'There but for the grace of God', and an understanding of the hurt we are feeling at our loss as a family.

    I don't think Carmel, his mother, or me, his devastated dad, will ever get over this. I don't know how to get over this. I have worked all my life to give my family everything I could, because, at the end of the day, that is what I feel life is all about – family, and if you have your health and your family, nothing else matters.

    There is a link gone from my life, my beautiful son, my pal, my inspiration, a boy I was so proud to call my son.

    http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/We-did-our-civic-duty.6275423.jp


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