[2] The Rafferty family met with Daithí Doolan, the local Sinn Féin representative, asking him to have the threat stopped.
[3] On 12 April 2005, Rafferty was shot twice with a sawn-off shotgun,[1] once in the leg and once in the chest, as he left his flat in Ongar, Dublin to go to work.
Ahern stated the murder was committed by "Elements, probably of criminality, claim[ing] they had links with republicans.
[4] The tenth and twelfth reports of the Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC), released in April and October 2006 respectively, contain a table on the number of murders believed to be linked to paramilitary groups between March 2003 and August 2006.
"[3] Uzell-Rafferty ran as an independent candidate in the 2007 Irish general election for Dublin South-East to call on Daithí Doolan to fully co-operate with the Garda investigation into her brother's killing.