An eyewitness has told the Special Criminal Court how a gunman smirked and walked away after firing shots into the shop where Dublin man David Douglas was murdered.
The non-jury court also heard that the man accused of the murder was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage after he was found travelling at speed in a stolen vehicle which had repeatedly crashed into another car in south Dublin three days after the shooting.
Lee Canavan had €1,065 in cash and his clothing smelled of petrol when gardai stopped him and Nathan Foley in Crumlin, in one of the four cars allegedly used in the killing of Mr Douglas.
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A man accused of being the gunman in what was described as a carefully planned assassination in Dublin has gone on trial accused of murder.
31-year-old Lee Canavan, of no fixed abode, denies killing David ‘Daithi’ Douglas at a shoe shop on Bridgefoot Street in July 2016.
At around 4pm on July 1st 2016, David ‘Daithi’ Douglas was leaning up against a counter in his girlfriend’s shoe shop when a gunman walked in.
He shot him six times. Mr Douglas’ daughter, who was also working there, rushed to his aid, but he didn’t survive.
The prosecuting barrister, Sean Gillane, said the gunman then jumped into the so-called “murder car,” which was waiting for him on a nearby street.