Caught In The Crossfire - Every Dog Has Its Day (Episode 1)
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And did you know who Marlow Hyland was?
I never heard of him. Never heard nothing. He was all I had. I did have a second child, but it was a stillbirth. Right. And there was nine years in the difference. And every year I'd ring Anthony on the baby's anniversary. And I'd say, do you know what it is? He'd say, I know, it's Leslie's anniversary. Do you know what I mean? So, yeah. We had that closeness.
The 80s had the General, the 90s had John Gilligan, and in the noughties, it was the reign of Martin Marlow Hyland. He ruled over the drug scene, working his way up the ranks, taking the opportunity to step in when others fell by the wayside. He grew increasingly reckless and paranoid and therefore became a liability. He had to go. And the circumstances of his death just added to his legacy. That an innocent young man doing an honest day's work lost his life is just terrible. You're listening to Caught in the Crossfire, Episode 1, Every Dog Has Its Day. Just before 10am on the 29th of February 2024, a white van pulled out of the gates of Portleish Prison and as the driver cruised past the waiting bank of photographers, he flicked up his middle finger.
Not the politest of salutes maybe, but perhaps his annoyance at being snapped was understandable. In the back of that van, crouching down out of sight, was a man who was once at the heart of gangland Ireland. John Mangan might not be a name many people will instantly recognise. After all, he's been behind bars for the guts of 16 years. His one-time boss, however, the man he served as a loyal and trusted lieutenant, was one of Ireland's most feared, and for a time, most prolific mobsters. Martin Marlow Highland was the head of a crime network that stretched its tentacles right across Dublin City, and Humangan is suspected of helping to murder on 12 December 2006. At a time when gangland slaying was at an all-time high, Marlow Hyland's death at the hands of former henchmen as he lay sleeping in the spare room of his niece's house might not have been all that shocking.
In fact, it was inevitable and most likely the shooting would simply have been added to the long list of hoodlums who've died as a direct result of their involvement in Ireland's drug wars. But there was one horrific twist. A sweet-faced apprentice plumber, Anthony Campbell, also happened to be in the house that morning.
Who was Martin 'Marlow' Hyland and how did he rise in Dublin's crime world?
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. This football-crazy 20-year-old, with sandy-coloured hair and a strong Cockney accent, had nothing to do with crime. 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. Knife crime, especially amongst teenage boys in the English capital, was escalating at a frightening rate. And while Anthony was a good boy, all it took was being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
It was a risk she wasn't willing to take, and so she brought him home. But Dublin had changed since Christine had moved across the Irish Sea when Anthony was just a toddler. In the mid-noughties, drug gangs were more ruthless than ever. It was the height of the Celtic Tiger and business was booming. Heroin was still popular, but the demand for cocaine across the country from every corner of society was through the roof. There was literally tons of money to be made. 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. But in the struggle for control of any kind of vast wealth, there are often those who get trampled on and left behind.
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. 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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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–2:58
2
Who was Martin 'Marlow' Hyland and how did he rise in Dublin's crime world?
2:58–5:21
3
How did Marlow Hyland's paranoia and drug habit make him a liability?
5:21–8:15
4
What happened the morning Anthony Campbell was shot in Finglas?
8:15–17:45
5
Why was Anthony an innocent victim and what was his background?
17:45–22:16
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