Dad of five gunned down at mother's house was due to return to UK

Thomas McCarthy, a fifty-five-year-old father of five from England, was fatally shot at his mother's home in Ballyfermot, Dublin, on 27 July 2020. He answered the door expecting a postal delivery and sustained nine gunshot wounds in what has been described as a carefully planned attack. Mr McCarthy had been visiting Ireland for three weeks and was due to return to the United Kingdom that evening. Two men have been…