The General Godfather Of Crime by Paul Williams

Author:Paul Williams
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: THE OBRIEN PRESS
Published: 1995-01-13T13:00:00+00:00

Cahill parked his motorbike outside the house on Lismore Road at 5.30 pm and went inside. He went upstairs to the front bedroom where Melia was sorting out a £50,000 consignment of heroin. For several days detectives from the Drug Squad had been watching the house and the movements of the two friends. At 6.10 pm the Drug Squad pounced. Detectives burst into the bedroom and caught the two criminals sitting on the bed with the drugs in their laps. In the follow-up searches at Lismore Road and Eddie Cahill's house on Lissadel Road in Crumlin, detectives seized over £10,000 in cash. Later the two men were charged under the Misuse of Drugs Act and remanded to Mountjoy Prison, a place they knew well.

The General was stunned by the arrests of his two lieutenants. He was fully aware of their involvement in the heroin trade but reckoned they were careful enough not to get caught. It had been a bad year.

Despite the set-back he decided to go ahead with the Murnaghan robbery. At ten o'clock on the evening of Wednesday, 7 December, Cahill and two other gang members climbed over a wall at the rear of the Murnaghan residence at Lad Lane. They broke a window in the basement and got in. Although the alarm system was on they had little difficulty by-passing it. The unarmed robbers confronted Mrs Murnaghan's housekeeper who lived in the basement.

They brought the housekeeper upstairs to where ninety-two year-old Alice Murnaghan was reading in her room. Cahill was not aggressive and did not ill-treat the women who were kept in a study on the first floor. He assured them that nothing would happen to them. Throughout the night, he made the two women several cups of tea and brought them biscuits. As in the Beit robbery, he knew what to take and what to leave behind. Cahill's men removed fifty paintings, a quantity of silverware and cutlery, goblets and candelabra, some pieces of furniture and jewellery. Included in the haul were works by German, Dutch and French artists. The loot was placed in a van parked on Lad Lane.

Unknown to Cahill the undercover team from the Serious Crime Squad had found out about his deal with the English criminal. They had, for a time, managed to place an informant in close to the General. They sat tight and waited for him to make a move. Two weeks after the Murnaghan robbery Eddie Cahill and Harry Melia were released on bail of £12,000 each. The next day Martin Cahill arranged for a video containing recently-filmed footage of the loot to be passed to an intermediary working on behalf of the London man. Then he waited for the deal to be done - so did the cops.

At the last minute the English criminal found out that the works of art were not insured. He pulled out of the deal and Cahill would never know why. The cops backed off and waited for their next opportunity. The General had no idea how close he had come to being caught.

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