A Liverpool hitman has been jailed for life for his role in the execution of a dad gunned down in Dublin.
David Hunter was sentenced today following his conviction over the murder of pub manager Michael Barr.
The attack is believed to be linked to an ongoing feud between major rival gangs being played out across Europe.
Mr Barr was shot seven times, fives times in the head, in the Sunset House venue in April 2016.
At the time, the 35-year-old, said to have been a known dissident republican, was having a night off from his bar manager job to attend a fundraiser for the wives of IRA prisoners.
Hunter was convicted of murder in September following a trial before the Special Criminal Court.
The panel of three judges that heard the case ruled the 41-year-old, who gave a home address of west London but is from Liverpool originally, was one of two men who entered the bar in boiler suits and rubber Freddy Krueger masks before opening fire on Mr Barr.
The getaway car was torched by the gang.
But the flames failed to take hold and fully destroy the vehicle, inside which police found four guns, a mobile phone and clothing including ski masks on the back seat.
Hunter, whose DNA was on the masks, claimed he had travelled from Liverpool to Ireland 48 hours earlier to watch UB40 yet his defence was dismissed by the judges.
He is the second man to have been convicted of Mr Barr's murder.
Hunter’s accomplice Eamon Cumberton was previously found guilty of being the second gunman.
The 30-year-old of Mountjoy Street, Dublin, is serving a life sentence.
Since the murder, it has been claimed the killing was part of the Hutch-Kinahan rivalry - a continuing bloody dispute between two criminal organisations.
