Ken Foy

The gunman was actually a criminal from Bray.

I think he's actually still inside.

Serving life, yeah.

No, I actually think he probably, that sentence has expired in the UK.

I think it's under five years there, you're effectively given half.

Half of that is a custodial element.

So that would have actually expired.

So what he's doing now is effectively shave any potential time that he's given here off.

But...

We've been covering some of these cases over the years.

It's highly unusual that he's decided to brave it out in an English jail as preferable.

I'm sure he'd be remanded in custody once he comes back here, but the option of staying in a jail in London, for whatever reason, is preferable to him.

I don't know why.

Little if he'd lived, he'd be hitting 30 now, so Salmon is a bit older.

But back in those days, Niall, we in the Sunday World as well, and the Herald in those times, every week there'd be a couple of stories in relation to what was going on.

It was a very chaotic situation.

So we looked at him in a very kind of deep way.

And one name that never came up in those times was Mark Salmond, who's pleaded guilty to these very serious charges.

Yes, we really were wondering, kind of, who the hell is this guy?

We were aware, I suppose, that he had been a target for Operation Fogra, which is a massive guard investigation, particularly in North Dublin, which would be Mark Salmon's base.