The widow of murdered Trevor O’ Neill has spoken out about the heartbreak her family has endured following her husband’s violent death last year, on August 17.
Council worker Trevor was mistaken for a Dublin gangland figure involved in the Kinahan/Hutch feud, and was gunned down in the Costa de la Calma area of Mallorca.
Suzanne Power has told The Irish Sun about the devastating effect Trevor’s death has had on her and their three young children.
“I don’t have to explain to my children what happened, because they were there — they saw it,” she explained.
“That awful night will now live with them forever, and no child should have to endure this.
“Any of us could have been killed that night — the gunman put the gun over my daughter’s shoulder before opening fire. He pushed past my daughter and he opened fire”.
Innocent Trevor was killed after an accidental meeting with intended target Jonathan Hutch while on holidays with his family.
A devastated Suzanne said: “Trevor was just so outgoing, friendly, decent...and this is what cost him his life. His biggest problem was that he talked to everyone — this is why he’s in a grave today.
“Our focus is my children, but we’ll never forget Trevor. He has missed out on Christmas, his daughter’s Communion, my other daughter going to her first disco - and he’ll never get to bring our son to watch his beloved Liverpool.
“The person who did this has no idea of the lives that have been destroyed.
“We weren’t in the wrong place at the wrong time — we were in a place I had been going to since I was 16.”
Dublin city council workers form a guard of for one of their own - Trevor O' Neill @rtenews pic.twitter.com/ILJiAtf9Zn
— Conor Hunt (@conorfhunt) August 30, 2016
The bereavement took its toll on Suzanne, and she has been finding it hard to stay strong. Even attending a recent family fun day organised by the local Gardaí brought back feelings of terror.
She explained: “My son was delighted that he got to go in the back of a police car, and you’d think he was never in one before but he was — when his dad was murdered.
“I also saw a stretcher, and people showing kids how to do CPR — I took one look at the stretcher and the little bags they put on the person, and that did it for me”.
Suzanne says she’s still so traumatiSed by the horrific shooting that she is afraid to go to the post office or the shop, in case there is a robbery.
“It’s affected the whole family. His friends who worked with him in the council don’t even like going to work because nothing is the same for them," she said.
