Dublin car dealer to sue state for false IRA conviction ‘Father says being wrongly jailed over New IRA bomb attack ‘destroyed my life, my good name and my business’
by judy1986
Dublin car dealer to sue state for false IRA conviction ‘Father says being wrongly jailed over New IRA bomb attack ‘destroyed my life, my good name and my business’
by judy1986
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So the Gardaí relied on the word of a Montenegrin drug dealer who was using a false identity to convict this guy?
> Miscarriage of justice certificates are issued only in exceptional circumstances by judges who must be satisfied that an abuse of process has occurred.
>“I have been told nothing by the garda or the DPP. The garda has still not apologised. No one has contacted me to explain what happened, how this occurred,” O’Leary said.
>“Justice Birmingham ordered an inquiry but I have not heard anything about what it concluded. My life, my good name and my business was destroyed by all of this. I had to explain to my children why I was sent to prison for involvement in a planned bombing that I had no involvement in.”
The Special Criminal Court convicted this guy. Surely a jury court would’ve found him not guilty?
Simply no way this would’ve hit “beyond a reasonable doubt” imo