Woman jailed for helping to commission murder by buying petrol to destroy getaway car

A lady who assisted to commission the 2017 murder of a Dublin male by purchasing gas to ruin the vacation cars and truck has actually been imprisoned for 6 years and 3 months.

Ciara Mahony understood Jamie Tighe-Ennis “from around the location” and telephoned and fulfilled him on the night he was killed in October 2017, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard.

She then bought fuel which was utilized to set the vacation cars and truck on fire.

Mahony (46 ), with an address at Edmondstown Road, Ballyboden, however initially from Artane, was extradited from Birmingham, England, in 2015 in connection with the murder of Jamie Tighe-Ennis (24) 9 years earlier, which stays unsolved.

She pleaded guilty to the sole depend on the indictment of assisting in a criminal organisation in the commission of the murder in between October 27th and 28th, 2017. It is an offense that brings an optimal sentence of 15 years.

Jamie Tighe-Ennis passed away immediately after being shot in the head as he strolled along Moatview Avenue, Coolock, in the early hours of October 28th, 2017. A black Audi trip vehicle was discovered stressed out in Finglas a brief time later on.

Mahony’s participation consisted of buying the gas that was utilized to stress out the Audi, the court heard. She was seen on CCTV video footage filling a red jerry can in a Topaz gas station that was later on discovered in the burnt-out automobile, Det Sgt Domhnall O’Connell informed prosecuting lawyer Conor McKenna.

Gardaí likewise found her participation from a phone that was discovered in the automobile and a minimal edition bottle of white wine, which was just offered in about 12 locations in the nation and which they located to the Priorswood Inn, Clonshaugh.

Jamie Tighe-Ennis was hanging out in the Priorswood Inn on the night of his murder and Mahony satisfied him there quickly, the court heard. The set went outdoors and spoke briefly before he returned within and Mahony left.

Gardaí utilized phone mast information to track Mahony’s motions that night. She telephoned Jamie Tighe-Ennis a variety of times and once again the following early morning after he was eliminated, the court heard.

Mahony, who has no previous convictions other than for some roadway traffic matters, was apprehended in October 2018 and launched, with a file sent out to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

The DPP chose to prosecute in November 2024, at which point Mahony was residing in the UK and extradition procedures started. Her guilty plea was an early one, the court heard.

In a victim effect declaration read out by O’Connell, the daddy of Jamie Tighe-Ennis, Kevin Ennis, remembered getting here on the scene soon after his boy had actually been shot and seeing the swimming pool of blood around his body.

“My boy was dead,” he stated. “It’s with me every day and will be for the rest of my life.”

He stated he was sickened when he heard Mahony was a mom.

“How would you feel if it was your kid?” he stated. “You can rot in hell.”

June Tighe stated her kid’s death was “violent, unexpected and disastrous” and discovering of it was “the worst minute of my life”.

“He was liked,” she included. “He mattered. He had a life, a future. We will never ever make the memories that ought to have been made with him.”

Defence lawyer Jack Ryan put it to O’Connell that while Mahony understood “an extremely major offense” was prepared that night, she did not always understand Jamie Tighe-Ennis would be eliminated.

The investigator stated Mahony was “mindful something major was going to take place” to Jamie Tighe-Ennis.

O’Connell concurred with Ryan when he stated Mahony had a serious dependency to break drug at the time and was under the impact of individuals associated with organised criminal offense, consisting of 2 previous partners.

Judge Martin Nolan stated Mahony the accused “has ethical responsibility is this specific case”.

He took into consideration mitigating aspects, consisting of Mahony’s early guilty plea and absence of previous convictions and stated she had actually been unfortunate in her previous relationships which appeared to include violence and browbeating.

He set a heading sentence of 9 to 10 years, which he minimized to 6 years and 3 months.