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The victim of a murder bid by a criminal organisation only survived through a miraculous piece of medical luck when his gunshot wounds formed an abnormal connection between an artery and a vein that stopped him from bleeding out, the Central Criminal Court heard today.
The court heard during today s sentence hearing of getaway driver Alan Graham (49) that Lee Boylan sustained three gunshot wounds to his shoulder and neck as he sat in his van in broad daylight in a highly populated area in west Dublin
The court was told today that it was a miraculous piece of medical luck that the then 24-year-old survived and he would have bled to death if his carotid artery and jugular vein had not joined in a arteriovenous fistula , an abnormal connection between an artery and a vein that stopped the bleeding.