On July 22, 1982, Malcolm Macarthur went to the Phoenix Park in Dublin and bludgeoned Bridie Gargan, a 27-year-old nurse, to the point of death. Two days later, he shot a young farmer, Donal Dunne in Edenderry, Co Offaly with Dunne’s own shotgun at point-blank range. The first murder was committed in order to steal a car. The second was designed to secure a weapon. In the world of Macarthur, both were essential to his plan to carry out a number of armed robberies in order to replenish his diminished fortune. Even now, more than 40 years on, the killing…

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