{"id":645600,"date":"2026-08-19T15:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/645600\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T15:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:02:15","slug":"garda-appears-before-court-charged-with-seeking-to-hire-hitman-to-murder-four-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/645600\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda appears before court charged with seeking to hire hitman to murder four people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A MEMBER OF An Garda S\u00edochana has appeared before\u00a0the Criminal Courts of Justice this morning charged with soliciting a person to murder four people in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The garda, who cannot be identified, was suspended from duty at\u00a0the start of the investigation by the Garda Anti-Corruption Unit.<\/p>\n<p>He is facing four charges under Section 4 of the Offences Against the Person Act, 1861 as amended by Section 1 of the Statute Law Revision Act 1892 and Section 11 of the Criminal Law Act 1997.<\/p>\n<p>The charges relate to two males and two females.<\/p>\n<p>The accused is facing a further charge against one of the females for allegedly attempting to induce a woman \u201cto refrain from doing an act, seeking financial support for your child, contrary to Common Law\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Detective sergeant Mark Melbourne told presiding Judge Darach McCarthy that he arrested the accused at around 9am this morning at Kevin Street garda station.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The accused was charged shortly after 9.15am.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Melbourne said the accused made no reply to the charges made to him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The garda said he has no objection to bail under conditions, including that the accused\u2019s passport be surrendered.<\/p>\n<p>Solicitor for the accused, Conor McGreevy, said the conditions were agreed with.<\/p>\n<p>Judge McCarthy placed reporting restrictions on the case as it involves three child witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>The judge set bail at \u20ac300.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The case will continue in the Central Criminal Court on 25 September.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A garda spokesperson said: \u201cAs this is an ongoing criminal investigation An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na is making no further comment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A MEMBER OF An Garda S\u00edochana has appeared before\u00a0the Criminal Courts of Justice this morning charged with soliciting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[956,9,10,170475,27,715,102026,52,18,13,14,273202,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-645600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-court-news","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-criminal-courts-of-justice","tag-dublin","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-garda-anti-corruption-unit","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117122783567530228","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}