Gardai suspect they have recovered the weapon used in one of Ireland’s most notorious murders – after workmen found two deadly guns at the killer’s former home.
The Mirror has confirmed that a submachine gun and revolver are set to be forensically examined after they were allegedly found hidden in a cavity wall in the former home of chainsaw killer Paul Wells late last week. He is serving life for the gruesome gun murder of his mechanic pal Kenneth O’Brien in Dublin – whose body he then dismembered with a chainsaw and dumped in a rural stretch of the Grand Canal.
Wells (55) has been locked up since he was found guilty of the February 2016 murder of Mr O’Brien, but the firearm he used to shoot the victim in the head has never been recovered – and detectives now suspect one of the guns found in the killer’s old home could be it. A submachine gun, revolver as well as ammunition were found by workmen in the cavity wall of Wells’ ex-home in Dublin late last week – more than seven years after he was arrested for the gruesome murder of his pal Kenneth O’Brien.
