> A police officer agreed with the defence there “wasn’t a scintilla of evidence”, apart from his statement, that Jonathan Dowdall gave a hotel room key to Gerry Hutch.
> **Det Sgt O’Toole admitted Dowdall had told untruths in the recordings out of bravado “to impress Gerry”** and because he was on medication for depression.
> **In his garda statement, Dowdall said there were many lies in his secretly-recorded conversations with Gerry Hutch**, the court heard.
Dowdall said he was trying to tell Gerry Hutch things he wanted to hear and because he was on tablets.
“I talk a lot when I’m nervous or uncomfortable,” the former Sinn Féin councillor said.
So is he off scott free?
I wonder if we’ll get some retractions in the Indo and IT. They were taking Dowdall’s word as gospel.
I can’t believe they actually arrested him for this with so little evidence. It’s embarrassing, the whole fucking thing is embarrassing, it highlights how much of a joke our judiciary system is, They put all of those wheels in motion (coordinated a sting with Spanish police, all high profile stuff) because one witness said things, that I would argue, are inadmissible at best, and the witness not credible in the least. Why waste the opportunity to nail this fucker on so little evidence? Oh wait. . . . . . . Sinn Fein baaad
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> A police officer agreed with the defence there “wasn’t a scintilla of evidence”, apart from his statement, that Jonathan Dowdall gave a hotel room key to Gerry Hutch.
> **Det Sgt O’Toole admitted Dowdall had told untruths in the recordings out of bravado “to impress Gerry”** and because he was on medication for depression.
> **In his garda statement, Dowdall said there were many lies in his secretly-recorded conversations with Gerry Hutch**, the court heard.
Dowdall said he was trying to tell Gerry Hutch things he wanted to hear and because he was on tablets.
“I talk a lot when I’m nervous or uncomfortable,” the former Sinn Féin councillor said.
So is he off scott free?
I wonder if we’ll get some retractions in the Indo and IT. They were taking Dowdall’s word as gospel.
I can’t believe they actually arrested him for this with so little evidence. It’s embarrassing, the whole fucking thing is embarrassing, it highlights how much of a joke our judiciary system is, They put all of those wheels in motion (coordinated a sting with Spanish police, all high profile stuff) because one witness said things, that I would argue, are inadmissible at best, and the witness not credible in the least. Why waste the opportunity to nail this fucker on so little evidence? Oh wait. . . . . . . Sinn Fein baaad