The brazen drunk tried to excuse the fact he was swigging from a bottle of Jack Daniels while sitting in his car by saying he was going to use it as a weapon against an assassin who was trying to shoot him. The Sunday World' can reveal that Mahon has been telling pals that Eric 'Lucky' Wilson is plotting to whack him after Mahon implicated him in the disappearance and suspected murder of Amy, who went missing in Spain five years ago aged 15.
Wilson, a senior member of a notorious Dublin-based crime family, operated as a prolific hit-man for hire on behalf of several criminal gangs. However, he was jailed for 23 years in Spain in July 2011 after being found guilty of shooting a man dead in Malaga.
Dave Mahon has claimed that an "underworld source" approached him and his partner Audrey Fitzpatrick and that "we were told Eric 'Lucky' Wilson murdered Amy, that he was overheard boasting he had murdered her". However, it is understood that Eric Wilson was lying low in Northern Ireland at the time Amy vanished,and there is no evidence he was involved in the disappearance or issued any threat against Mahon.
In court this week, evidence was heard that an off-duty garda spotted Mahon driving erratically near his home in Santry, north Dublin last January. Garda Paul Mullen saw Mahon's car "veer from left to right very erratically in front of oncoming vehicles". Its driver broke several red lights and caused a number of oncoming cars to swerve to avoid crashing into Mahon.Mahon claimed he thought garda Mullen was following him with a view to shooting him and that he had informed senior gardai that his life was under threat.
Appeal
He said when he was outside his house in his car he picked up the Jack Daniels to use as a weapon if he was attacked. However, he started to drink from it. Judge Ann Watkin described his evidence as "blatant lies". She sentenced him to four months in prison after finding him guilty of drink driving and three counts of careless driving. He was also banned from driving for five years, but was released on bail pending an appeal.
