A MUM roared “you dirty scumbag” at a man who had just shot her son dead as part of the Hutch/Kinahan feud, an inquest heard today.
Jason ‘Buda’ Molyneux, 27, was shot up to 13 times at close range just a short distance from his home six years ago with his mother witnessing flashes from the fatal gunshots.
The known Hutch associate was killed after leaving his home in Dublin’s north inner city to visit a friend in the nearby James Larkin House flats complex off the North Strand around 9pm on January 30, 2018.
The Hutch mob became involved in a bloody feud following the murder of a leading member of the Kinahan drugs cartel, David Byrne, in a daring attack at the Regency Hotel in Whitehall in February 2016.
The deceased had just returned from a wake for his close friend, Derek Coakley-Hutch – a nephew of veteran Dublin criminal Gerry “The Monk” Hutch – who had been shot 10 days earlier as he sat in a car at a halting site near Cloverhill Prison in west Dublin.
The victim’s mother, Liz Molyneux, who lived with her son and daughter, Donna, in North William Street, Dublin 1, told Dublin District Coroner’s Court that her son had returned home earlier that evening having attended a wake for his friend with his young son.
Ms Molyneux said her son had been sitting on the couch with a friend in their home when he left alone at around 8.45pm to meet another friend.
She heard a bang that she thought sounded like a banger going off, revealing she ran out onto her balcony and saw a flash followed by “a few more bangs and flashes.”
Ms Molyneux said she saw someone running back and forth looking like they were in a panic.
The inquest heard she just knew that it was her son who had been shot and she shouted out at the gunman: “You dirty scumbag.”
She described jumping over a railing to rush to her son’s assistance where she held his head in her hands but got no response.
She recalled: “I said ‘be strong, Jason, be strong,’ and he squeezed my hand.”
Her daughter Donna rang for an ambulance and her brother was rushed to the nearby Mater Hospital but he was pronounced dead a short time later.
Inspector Ken Hoare told the inquest that Molyneux’s death was still an open Garda investigation.
He confirmed that gardai also believed Molyneux’s killing was directly related to the murder of David Byrne.
A jury of five men and three women returned a verdict of unlawful killing by person or persons unknown.
