Nicola Tallent
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18,029 appearances
151 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 6d ago
Nicola Tallent’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A sweet-faced apprentice plumber, Anthony Campbell, also happened to be in the house that morning.
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An innocent young man doing an honest day's work, completely oblivious as to the identity of the dangerous criminal sleeping upstairs at the house in Finglas, North Dublin, where he'd been called out to that morning.
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This football-crazy 20-year-old, with sandy-coloured hair and a strong Cockney accent, had nothing to do with crime.
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In fact, his mother, Christine, had moved him back from London, where she'd raised him on her own, to her home city of Dublin when he was 17 years old because she feared him going down the wrong path.
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Knife crime, especially amongst teenage boys in the English capital, was escalating at a frightening rate.
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And while Anthony was a good boy, all it took was being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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It was a risk she wasn't willing to take, and so she brought him home.
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But Dublin had changed since Christine had moved across the Irish Sea when Anthony was just a toddler.
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In the mid-noughties, drug gangs were more ruthless than ever.
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It was the height of the Celtic Tiger and business was booming.
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Heroin was still popular, but the demand for cocaine across the country from every corner of society was through the roof.
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There was literally tons of money to be made.
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And there was nothing that wannabe crime lords weren't prepared to do to claw their way to the top and to the riches they believed were waiting there.
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But in the struggle for control of any kind of vast wealth, there are often those who get trampled on and left behind.
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In the crime world, this often means something a lot more sinister, murders and maiming, and in the worst cases, innocents getting caught in the crossfire.
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Of course, Anthony Campbell wasn't the first blameless victim of Ireland's gang wars, and neither will he be the last.
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But there was something about the killing of this young man that's remained with me for almost two decades.
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The fear he must have felt that morning as two men crept into the house where he was working, one of them sneaking up the stairs to a bedroom where Marlow Highland lay sleeping, and then hearing the gun blasts.
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and the sound of the hitman thundering back down the stairs.
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Anthony didn't stand a chance.
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