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A 39-year-old man who discovered the dismembered remains of a teenager in a gym bag in Darndale almost exactly a year ago has been the victim of a savage knife attack.
he father of two was stabbed multiple times in the shocking incident that unfolded at Moatview Gardens in Priorswood on the north side of the capital on Sunday night.
A Garda spokesman said the man “received serious injuries and was taken to Beaumont Hospital” after he was attacked in the front garden of his house at 10:30 pm.
He received a series of stab wounds to the arms and chest from the attacker who fled on foot after breaking a window in the man’s home.
There have been no arrests in the case investigated by Coolock Gardaí.
Local sources say that one theory being investigated is that the Dublin man may have been targeted because one of his associates was allegedly involved in a social media dispute that has caused tensions in the town.
Sources say that it also cannot be ruled out that associates of the murdered gangster Robbie Lawlor may have targeted the victim.
Lawlor, who was shot and killed in Belfast in April, was the prime suspect in the savage murder and dismemberment of the teenager last January, who currently cannot be identified for legal reasons.
Gardaí is also investigating an incident in October when the stabbed man was threatened with a weapon in his home, but no one was injured on that occasion.
It is understood that the man is not cooperating with the Garda investigation into the knife attack that led to his home being sealed Monday while officers conducted a forensic examination of the scene in Moatview Gardens.
In an interview with the World Sunday Last February, after discovering the body of the teenager, the 39-year-old expressed concern for his safety and refused to give a statement to Gardaí despite giving them a DNA sample.
“I was undecided about coming in and doing this interview, but I’m afraid that if I don’t, these people will take me to a van and separate me,” he said.
“I need you to know that I did not see the car from which they dumped the bag.”
He told the World Sunday that his ordeal began shortly after 10 p.m. on Monday, January 13, 2020, when he was lured out of his Moatview home by the sound of sirens coming from a garda chase in the area.
“I went out to see what all the commotion was about and I noticed the bag.
“It looked pretty new and it was just sitting on the wall.
“It was a long sports bag, I didn’t see a mark on it. My first thought was that it was after being thrown out of a car and left there because the police were in the area.
He continued: “There were three things that I thought might have been. I thought, maybe someone had forgotten their gym equipment; that they were stolen goods or drugs. And drugs were discovered not too long ago, so it wouldn’t have been too big of a jump.
“I picked him up and went into the house with him. The bag was heavy. I thought there was something important in this. We open it, myself and someone else in the house, after we take it to the main room. “
The man went on to say that he panicked when he realized what he had brought home.
“When I realized what we had in the house, I ran out with him and took him back to where he came from. By then all the neighbors left because we shouted ‘there are body parts in the bag’ – and one of the neighbors called the gardaí ”, he said.
The man said he was unaware at the time that the Gardaí had been on high alert after receiving intelligence information that a 17-year-old had been kidnapped and killed.
The man said he didn’t know if he would ever get over the shock of seeing the teen’s remains.
Irish independent
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