SERIAL killer Eric 'Lucky' Wilson operated in a hitman-for-hire team
SERIAL killer Eric 'Lucky' Wilson operated in a hitman-for-hire team along with three close relatives, one of whom is suspected of murdering Roma teenager Marioara Rostas after holding her as a sex slave.
The band of blood killers worked as trigger-happy, cocaine-fuelled assassins for every major criminal in Dublin and are believed to be behind countless gangland assassinations.
At one point Eric Wilson compiled a hit list for 'Fat' Freddie Thompson of who he could take out in the rival Rattigan mob.
The list, which was seized during a search of his house in Portarlington, Co. Laois, included the names of Brian Rattigan's sister Sharon, his disabled brother Jason and his then girlfriend Natasha McEnroe.
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Wilson had done months of reconnaisance on eight associates of Rattigan he believed would be easily shot dead, including the his right-hand man Shay O'Byrne, who would later die in girlfriend Sharon's arms.
Wilson was convicted of murdering roofer Dan Smith in Spain this week, after a court heard he blasted him in the head and twice in the testicles because the Englishman tried to stop him touching up a woman in a bar near the seaside resort of Fuengirola in June 2010.
During his trial it emerged that Wilson is a contract killer. The jury was shown a transcript of phone calls intercepted by Spanish police investigating organised crime and drug trafficking.
The documents related to a conversation between two unnamed criminals after Wilson's arrest. During the call, they discuss how they were worried that Wilson would do a deal and grass up "the boys".
Today, the Sunday World can reveal how Wilson:is suspected of using a chainsaw to dismember two of his victims to hide their bodies;
tricked another victim into travelling to Spain for safety and then murdered and buried him in a shallow grave;
was schooled in murder by one of the country's most senior IRA figures, who is involved in a bitter feud with that has already claimed two victims.The IRA don regularly gave Wilson and his murdering relatives use of his €1million pad in Marbella to escape to after their hits;
was contracted to kill by the country's top underworld figures, including Christy Kinahan, Eamon 'the Don' Dunne, the gangster known as 'the Panda' and Freddie Thompson, among others;
worked with three male relatives who all hired out their services as contract killers including one, nicknamed 'the Soldier', who is the chief suspect in the disappearance of 17-year-old Marioara and;
commanded fees of up to €10,000 a hit from feuding gang bosses and was so professional he compiled dossiers on each victim before moving in for his kill.
Gardai believe Wilson is the most prolific contract murderer in the history of gangland crime in Ireland. They say the psychopath had an incredible appetite for murder and was joined in his chosen career by three relations.
Wilson is one of the chief suspects in the disappearance of drug dealers David 'Baby Face' Lindsay and his former sidekick Alan 'Wacker' Napper, missing since 2008.
Officers believe that Wilson was hired by crime boss 'the Panda' to get rid the pair and a €2.5million drugs debt he owed them.
The duo were last seen in Clane, Co. Kildare, where they had gone to see a gang associate who loaned Lindsay his car. It is believed they then drove to a house in Rostrevor in County Down to meet 'the Panda' and sort out the debt.
Instead they were killed in July 2008 and 'the Panda' later bragged that he and an associate, believed to be Wilson, then cut up the bodies with a chainsaw before dumping them in a grave.
Months previously, 17-year-old Marioara was working as a prostitute on a Dublin street when Wilson's relative and closest friend, 'the Soldier', pulled in and did a deal to hire her for sex.
She had been just weeks in the country at the time of her disappearance in January 2008 and was with a younger brother on East Lombard Street when she was propositioned.
It is understood that an agreement was made that the man would have sex with her and then drop her back to her brother - but he never did.
Two days after her disappearance, her family realised that she was in grave danger and reported her missing to Gardai.
A year after an appeal on Crimecall, officers received a tip-off that led them to a house on Brabazon Street, in Dublin 8, where they now believe that Marioara was held as a sex slave by Wilson's relative.
The house had been torched, with fires set on three separate floors, but forensics still combed it for evidence and discovered six separate gunshots in the walls.
No DNA belonging to the girl was found, but officers believe a major clean-up had been conducted before the fires were set. In the bedroom where investigators believe that the teenager was kept, the walls had been washed down and furniture removed.
But the remains of a charred deadbolt lock was found on the outside of the bedroom door and the windows had been nailed shut from the inside.
Sources close to the investigation say Wilson and his relative were best friends and spent a lot of time together since they were young.
"They were incredibly tight, like two peas in a pod," the source said. "Both spent their time high on cocaine and heroin; they were super paranoid and were incredibly violent.They were both working as hitmen and they wouldn't have thought twice about helping one another out if a murder needed to be covered up."
Wilson is also suspected of murdering drug dealers Paul Reay in 2006, assassinated on the orders of slain crime boss Martin 'Marlo' Hyland, who would die later that year himself, and Roy Coddington, murdered in Co. Meath in 2007 because he had failed to pay protection money to the IRA.
In 2009, he convinced hitman Christy Gilroy to travel to Spain for safety as Gardai were pursuing him for a double murder. Once he arrived, Gardai believe, Wilson went to meet him, shot him in the back of the head and buried him in a shallow grave. His body has never been found.
He has also been linked to the disappearance of associate Alan Campbell in Spain last year. He went missing in March and is believed to be dead.
During the conversation read to the jury at his murder trial this week, two unidentified criminals discuss Wilson.
In the leaked files obtained by the Sunday World and handed to the jury before they retired to discuss their verdict, the two criminals 'B' and 'P' state:
B: "The relatives are looking for the bodies and Wilson could do a deal with the authorities. There are people who are worried he will take a lot of others down with him if he does do a deal.
P: "How many bodies there are?
B: "There are more than ten in Ireland alone.
P: "There are three or four in Drogheda and five in Dublin and another two somewhere in the countryside.
B: " Wilson is the main suspect for ten murders, but the police don't have any proof. Wilson is a nutter, but they've never arrested him. The boys are worried he's going to grass them up and walk and they're going to get life.
B: "The other murders Eric's committed previously were meticulously planned but not this one in Spain, which was down to drunkeness and which has left Wilson in the s**t. Wilson is a ticking timebomb.
B: "Something was published in the Sunday World (B asks how the paper knew that, because not many people knew he sold guns and didn't get rid of them) The article doesn't say who they sold the pistols to."
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The alleged attacker, reportedly a friend of the couple, was arrested hours later by police.
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