Crippled mob boss Owen Maguire turns to faith healer in bid to walk again as first pic emerges of him in wheelchair
Exclusive: The faith healer has been visiting Maguire and ‘praying over his legs’, sources have told us
Crippled Drogheda mob boss Owen Maguire has turned to a faith healer in a bid to walk again - as the first image emerges of him in a wheelchair.
Maguire, who hasn’t been seen in public since he was shot and left paralysed by slain serial killer Robbie Lawlor in July 2018, was pictured recently sitting in his blue wheelchair giving a thumbs up while surrounded by several pals.
This comes as we can exclusively reveal that Criminal Assets Bureau target Maguire, whose associates are at war with two notorious on-the-run brothers, has been engaging with a faith healer in a bid to walk again.
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The faith healer has been visiting Maguire and ‘praying over his legs’, sources have told us.
“He seems to be determined to walk again and has now started seeing a faith healer who has been praying over his legs,” a source said.
“The faith healer has been visiting him at his home on Cement Road in Drogheda and praying with him to get use of his legs again.”
Maguire, who was named in the High Court as the joint head of the Price-Maguire Organised Criminal Gang, along with now deceased Cornelius Price, has been involved in a lethal gangland feud in Drogheda since 2018 and was described as “a major scale drug dealer” supplying drugs in much of the country’s north-east area including Co Louth, Meath and Dublin.
Slain psychopath Lawlor - who was an associate of the leader of the Anti-Maguire faction - was named in the High Court as the man who pulled the trigger on Owen Maguire on July 5, 2018 leaving the Drogheda criminal paralysed and confined to a wheelchair.
Maguire was shot several times shortly after midnight on July 5, 2018 outside his home on Cement Road in Drogheda in what a senior investigator believed was the start of the vicious feud between the Price-Maguire OCG and the Anti-Maguire faction.
Maguire and Price’s gang once controlled the northeast until this deadly feud led to their ultimate downfall.
Price passed away last year from a brain disease while several of Maguire’s associates fled to the UK during the height of the feud.
The gang are believed to be behind the murders of Willie Maughan, 34, and his pregnant partner Ana Varslavane, 21.
The tragic couple were killed in Price’s fortified compound in Gormanston, Co Meath in April 2015.
With Price — who is suspected of having a direct role in the murders — dead, sources say that Maguire has key knowledge regarding the murders but refuses to give it up.
Last year both Owen and his brother Brendan - who was also shot and injured in a murder attempt during the feud in February 2019 - were stripped of two properties, €304k in cash, two vehicles and a Rolex watch by the Criminal Assets Bureau after the High Court deemed the properties, cash, vehicles and watch were the proceeds of crime.
Brendan - who now lives in the UK - was described in an affidavit in the High
Court as a person of “significant strength, the person who collects the money owed for drugs or uses intimidation when required.”
The feud - which has quietened down in recent years - claimed four lives including that of teenager Keane Mulready-Woods who was murdered and dismembered by slain serial killer Robbie Lawlor and over 100 criminal incidents including shootings and houses petrol bombed have been reported.
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