DPP employee goes on trial for allegedly passing information relating to suspect in dissident's murder
Image: PA Archive/PA Images Image: PA Archive/PA Images A CIVIL servant in the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions gave a tip-off about the imminent arrest of a suspect for the murder of dissident republican Peter Butterly, a court has heard.
The deceased was fatally shot in view of students waiting for their school bus on the afternoon of 6 March, 2013 outside The Huntsman Inn in Gormanston, Co Meath. He was working in the post room, where he commenced employment on 3 January, 2017 and it was his role to collect, deliver and circulate files in the building.
Various items and memorabilia recovered there suggested the service officer “had republican sympathies”. Counsel said that it would be the State’s case that the accused told other men about the forthcoming arrest and Special Criminal Court appearance of the suspect the following day.He also said that there was circumstantial evidence relating to the steps taken with the file, CCTV evidence of the accused, text messages and statements given by the defendant.The letter was generated on at 10.40am on 7 September, 2017 by directing officer Orla Keenan and was collected from her desk at 2.15pm.
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